It could be the protection problems on the /dev/mixer device, or maybe you
don't belong to the audio group.

/Icebiker

"Leo" <leoanddona@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fLyec.60030$KE5.918545@weber.videotron.net...
> Leo wrote:
> > Thanks again to everyone in the group who gave such detailed advice on
> > choosing a distro and pointing out some things I did not understand.
> >
> > I am writing this on my Linux box - Fedora Yarrow - which is a little
> > sluggish so I have to figure out how to make this Gnome environment a
> > little speedier (or maybe change to a faster desktop).
> >
> > The only real problem I am having is with my sound card.
> >
> > I have tried to find advice on the web for configuring it but
> > practically every link I have found either didn't answer the question of
> > how to get it started or pointed to a now defunct article by Steve
> > Crowder on how to configure the CS4236B.
> >
> > Fedora isn't the first distro I tried on this machine. I started with
> > BLAG then Knoppix now Fedora. I would have settled for either of the
> > first two if they had recognized the sound card but as it is I figured
> > by the third time I did an install and the card was recognized but
> > nothing configured it was going to come down to me.
> >
> > If anyone has a resource on the web were I can find the instructions for
> > getting this one device working it would be appreciated.
> >
> > Leo.
> >
>
> I forgot to mention - when I click on the speaker icon on the bottom
> right of the screen the error message reads: Couldn't open mixer device
> /dev/sound/mixer
>
> When I browse the hardware the sound card is identified.
>
> I have tried going into sound preferences and setting "enable sound
> server startup" to see if that will work.
>
> Leo
>
>