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Hi to all.
I have a problem with audio on Salix 64bit. It simply doesn' t work. If i try to play something on clementine, for example, i get this error:

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Could not open audio device for playback.

so I tried to change the playback in clementines settings, but nothing worked. I tried to run alsacon, but I got:

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salix@darkstar:~$ alsaconf
bash: alsaconf: command not found

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root[salix]# lsmod | grep snd_*
snd_seq_dummy           1455  0 
snd_seq_oss            29048  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      5620  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                51265  5 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_device          5228  3 snd_seq,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_dummy
snd_pcm_oss            39183  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15404  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_realtek   195474  1 
snd_hda_intel          23267  0 
snd_hda_codec          81925  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep               6324  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                72864  3 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc          7081  2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              18798  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd                    57796  11 snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_seq_oss
soundcore               5474  1 snd

Any idea on how to fix it?
I'm using KDE.

Is it possible that you have set the audio output in some other application to use OSS? Or maybe have set KDE itself (well, phonon really) to use OSS?

Try using that application right after a reboot. Don't run anything else before it.

BTW, you can run alsaconf as root, but you shouldn't have to do that.

Well, if I try to go on phonon settings in KDE, System settings--> Multimedia -->Phonon, nothing happends and the window just disappears.
And no, I had not set any application by myself.

BTW, it seems that alsaconf doesn't even exist, despite of having all alsa packages installed.

Try installing phonon-gstreamer and/or phonon-mplayer (phonon backends). One or both of these should get the KDE System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon module to start.

Well, due to the fact of other problems, I' ve reinstalled Salix and everything work now.

Thanks to all answers.

Should I change name of the topic and add solved?

Chaosphere wrote:Should I change name of the topic and add solved?

You can simply prefix your first post title with [Solved]

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