Kent thanks for the heklp I have had a look for /dev/sndstat but no such file exist. How is this file created? I am added to ythe audio group. When I try to enable Audio I get the following message "Audio was enabled for Enlightenment but there was an error communicating with sound sever (Esound). Audio will now be disabled. I have reinstalled Esound but I am getting no futrther with the problem. dmesg gave no sound hardware-related messages. lsmod gave bash: lsmod: command not found So still no joy. Any ideas . Thanks again on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:56:37PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello all > > I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe > > 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the > > kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as > > I > > remember nothing comes to mind about how this was achieved). I have > > installed freeamp as my mp3 player and I want to play mp3's from my windows > > partition. The partition is mounted correctly and freeamp sees the files I > > want to play. However when I try to run the files it tells me that audio is > > not configured properly. I have looked through the list of HOWTO's in the > > /usr/doc/HOWTO directory but can find nothing about sound specifically. > > I would like to know how to check the Kernel configuration to see if the > > right drivers were installed, and install them if necessary, also If I do > > have the correct drivers installed how do I configure audio to get the card > > working. > > Thank you for taking the time to read this message > > John-Mark > > > > > > > I'm no expert, but here's some clues. > > Try the command "cat /dev/sndstat". This may or may not give you any info. > > You need to have access to the sound device files. Usually this means > you need to be in the group "audio". I believe the correct command to > add your user to that group is "adduser <username> audio". You'll then > need to log out/in for this to take affect. The command "groups" should > report what groups you're currently a member of. > > You also might try "cat <some .wav file> > /dev/audio". > > You can also do a "dmesg" to see any sound hardware-related messages > that scrolled by on bootup. > > And an "lsmod" to see what sound modules are loaded, although you imply > that the drivers were compiled into the kernel instead of as modules. > > None of these are solutions, but maybe they'll give you an extra piece > to the puzzle. > > >
-- John-Mark
