I recently opened up LFS to have this message appear on screen
Error initialising: SOUND

My LFS has no sound now due to this. The sound is clearly not working. Anyone have the solution?

Yes I have the solution.

Quote from Davo :

Yes I have the solution.

How helpful. :|

Search through the forum for this problem. IIRC it has something to do with WaveOut WinXP codecs - there is a fix posted somewhere. Or just upgrade to Test Patch U30 which uses DirectSound output

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... ror+initialising%3A+SOUND

There is a solution which is supposed to work...

It looks like people in that thread have their windows sounds broken aswell. My windows sounds still work.

Did you check whether other games/apps have sound? Your sound driver might broke down.
Also try to upgrade to a newer release of DX, which might broke also.

EDIT: And just BTW, my windows sound also worked(not fully, but worked) when thoise WaveOut codecs died.

Quote from Bob Smith :

How helpful. :|

I was replying in just as much detail as the OP gave of his problem.

Amazingly I went on LFS yesterday and the message didn't come up, when it got to the menu screen sound was working. It's fixed itself. Thanks for the help guys.