[LAU] Added E-Mu Midi1x1 adapter, now entire sound system doesn't work!

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Oct 29 06:19:45 EDT 2007


A few shutdowns/restarts later, it spontaneously started working again. 
Stupid computers.

david wrote:
> Yesterday it worked - could read and play MIDI through my keyboard, or 
> fluidsynth, and play regular audio stuff.
> 
> Today, when I started up the system, KDE tells me:
> 
>> Sound server informational message:
>> Error while initializing the sound driver:
>> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)
>> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> 
> I use ALSA and the system is usually set for Autodetect, but get the 
> same results if I select ALSA. I should have known that nothing really 
> works "out of the box" with Linux ;-) What the hey happened and how can 
> I fix it?
> 
> Running Debian testing. Did not update anything between the time it 
> worked and now.

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David
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