Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...discussion of diagnosing sound card snipped...]
> So Chris, your ES1370 works properly now? Can you do a "cat > /dev/sndstat"? > > I've got an ES1371 that I've been wrestling off-and-on for months > with. It's not important enough to buckle down and fix it, but it > really bothers me that some of the HOWTO information seems to be > so irrelevant concerning this card, like the inability to do a > "cat /dev/sndstat". I just don't have confidence in the HOWTO > because of this, and the troubleshooting information just isn't > there in enough detail to figure out what's going wrong. So > anyway, after ranting here, my only question is, again, can you > do a "cat /dev/sndstat" or does it still fail even though your > sound card is working? The `cat /dev/sndstat' stuff appears to be something of a red herring here (with this hardware atleast). Just launch freeamp and play something. Does anyone here know why this is? The Sound-HOWTO seems out of date, and the kernel documentation is less than clear, so I sympathize with your frustration. Best wishes, cbb
