"dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So does 'lsmod' show the module as loaded? If not, load it.
An lsmod shows:
es1370 24196 0 (unused)
soundcore 2440 4 [es1370]
(I don't know what the "unused" means.)
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 the above lsmod output indicate that I DO have a
sound driver module loaded (and "linked"(?))?
> Then what does
> cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
> do? It should produce static noise from the speakers. If that says
> No Such Device, then there are other problems.
I'll try that as soon as I boot up debian. (I don't have email yet
on debian, so I have to boot my PC up with W95 to email or
read newsgroups). But I think that I previously did try to cat some
"*.au" file to either /dev/dsp or to /dev/audio (don't remember
which), and I think it
didn't complain, but just did nothing.
>
> I don't know if you need to specify any options such as IO base or DMA
> channel for that card.
It's a PCI card that seems to be correctly ID'd on bootup, if that
tells you anything.
I've also seen a lot of "esound" stuff in the doc directory on my
system...none of which I specifically asked for. Could that
be interfering? I haven't checked yet to see if "esd" is running.
Mike Fontenot
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