Sound Won't Work...

I've just installed debian 2.2r3, and I've got an Ensonic PCI

sound card (es1370) that DOES seem to be recognized during

boot, and does show up in an lsmod (although it says "unused"...

I don't know what that implies). The lsmod also shows

"soundcore ... [es1370]". I also have all the

/dev audio-grp device files, and they look OK. But "cat /dev/sndstat"

says "No such device" (although the /dev/sndstat device file

IS present).

The Sound HOWTO says that the "No such device" response

to "cat /dev/sndstat" means that "the sound driver is not loaded

or linked into the kernel". But doesn't my lsmod output say

otherwise?

During the installation, I didn't install OSS or ALSA...I just wanted

to try to stick to the basics, and the Sound HOWTO says that

my sound card IS supported "by the linux kernel sound driver".

(I don't know if by "the linux kernel sound driver" he means to

include the case where the es1370 driver is installed as a module,

or not.)

Anyone know what's going on here?

Mike Fontenot

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