ALSA not working...[SOLVED] arts had taken over sound :)

[sequalit]

It all started when my flash inside firefox would play video but not sound...

and I started on the quest for the holy grail of making the sound play....

and now my system has no sound at all! ^.^

I was lead to use ALSA... which has broken my system =/

I tried to use the kernel, didn't work, KDE said that there was no such device as /dev/dsp, mixer showed good, but no music would play.

alsasound service would start under the kernel ALSA but no sound in any part of the system (well except for clicks when i restarted alsasound)

So then I went for the alsa-drivers, and now alsasound will not even initalize, it says failed to load drivers.

It worked when i was using arts. How do I get it back to that point, or fix my delema?


KDE Control Center > Sound > Hardware says that /dev/dsp cannot be found, no such device

[schachti]

You should be able to get ALSA running by following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml step for step.
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[sequalit]

That is the guide I followed step by step. I even went back over it two more times for good measure...

Still won't work. KDE doesn't notice the ALSA sound, it swears that /dev/dsp is an invalid device.

it works, because when i restart alsasound it clicks and stuff, but nothing can route to it.

*shrugs*

any ideas?

If you need/want any info about my system jsut lemme know what you need ill gladly post.

[sequalit]

SOLVED =)

I uninstalled everything that had been installed for alsa.

made sure arts was disabled, arts was taking over the sound server, not letting ALSA through.

reconfigured kernel for alsa

installed alsa-utils

and it worked >.<