Removing devices in Redhat9

[WaSaPeaS]

When I installed Redhat 9, my old Aureal Vortex 2 (Diamond MX300) card was in the mobo, and I specified a sound configuration. Unfortunately, I didn't know at the time that the Aureal card is virtually useless (I'm not l33t enough to write my own driver), and have since taken it out. Every time I log in, it pops up with a message saying:

Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer

Kudzu didn't pop up after I removed the card, what do I do so it stops looking for the mixer or any other unnecessary things to initalize a nonexistent sound card?

 

[cleverhandle]

Preferences--> Sound. Uncheck all of the sound stuff since you don't have the card anymore. I think that's where the error is coming in, but there may be other possiblities.

 

[WaSaPeaS]

I don't think I have a preferences -> sound anymore, switched to ximian, and I can't find a sound configuration tool in the menus.

 

[cleverhandle]

Bleh... sounds like something is broken. If it's the GNOME sound server (esd) that's the issue, you might be able to prevent it trying to load by modifying some gconf keys. First off, back up ~/.gconf - I make no guarantees that this is a fabulous idea. The sound server keys are in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound/%gconf.xml. Look in that file, and see if there's an "enable_esd" entry with "value=true". If so, then this is definitely an esd problem. It should be enough to change any "true" entries to "false". Or you could probably just delete the whole sound subdir, since it should default to no sound. And I would probably do all of this outside GNOME - do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a real console.

 

[WaSaPeaS]

I modified all the "true" entries in %gconf.xml to false, but that didn't do the trick. Next, I rm -rf'd the entire sound directory, but still no go. Are there any sound packages I could check to maybe uninstall? I found a rpm package called esound that seems to be part of ximian... but I'm still kind of shaky on rpms and file dependences and what not.

I'm a Linux n00b. Thanks for all the help.

 

[WaSaPeaS]

I modified all the "true" entries in %gconf.xml to false, but that didn't do the trick. Next, I rm -rf'd the entire sound directory, but still no go. Are there any sound packages I could check to maybe uninstall? I found a rpm package called esound that seems to be part of ximian... but I'm still kind of shaky on rpms and file dependences and what not.

I'm a Linux n00b. Thanks for all the help.

 

[cleverhandle]

You can't uninstall esound (esd) - even if you don't use it, low-level GNOME libraries depend on it. The last thing I can think of is to check your Session properties (Preferences-->Session). Make sure that there's no mention of esd in either "Current Session" or "Startup Programs". If there was, remove it, click Apply, and then check that gconf file from before.

But really, this sounds like a Ximian bug/feature to me. You should ask some Ximian boards/lists for advice or poke around whatever Ximian-specific configuration tools you've got. They evidently changed something about the Sound configuration and without a Ximian box to work with, I can't really be of much help.