GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 19602
hunting for non-existent sound card
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnome-core Version: 1.2.1-0_helix_1 Hello, I am running gnome and various gnome applications on a system which has no sound card. When I start a gnome application, even something as simple as gnome-terminal, it complains that it cannot find the sound device (from the X server log): /dev/dsp: No such device In addition, these applications try to load the sound kernel modules, which seems a pointless waste of memory when there is no sound card. Here the probing for various modules shows up in /var/log/messages: Aug 2 15:55:15 curium modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0 Aug 2 15:55:15 curium modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-3 I hope there is a simple fix to this problem. Thanx, Benjamin Alan Weaver <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>> < The Dream Weaver >< Reality resists all of our > < weaver@underdog.berkeley.edu >< valiant efforts to > < (510) 642-5516 >< misunderstand it. > <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>> ------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 15:03 ------- This bug was previously known as bug 19602 at http://bugs.gnome.org/ http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19602 Originally filed under the gnome-core product and general component. Unknown version 1.2.x in product gnome-core. Setting version to the default, "unspecified". The original reporter (weaver@curium.ssl.berkeley.edu) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-core-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Had to ask around about this one :) First, apparently it's not wasting memory. Two things to know: (a) the distribution (whatever it was) should have done alias sound-slot-0 off alias sound-service-0-3 off in /etc/modules.conf (b) you can turn off sound effects in the control panel. So it's not really a bug. It isn't using memory because it's failing to load things.