Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I can get dsp going by using modprobe es1371, and that lets me get esd going. However some apps - e.g. xmms - still won't work under that. Which is what prompted me to try alsa.
so with es1371 in, lsmod gives: ted:~# lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted es1371 26216 1 ac97_codec 9800 0 [es1371] gameport 1596 0 [es1371] ide-cd 26820 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27136 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] input 3296 0 (autoclean) soundcore 3588 4 (autoclean) [es1371] apm 8840 2 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4348 2 (autoclean) eepro100 17972 1 mii 2416 0 [eepro100] autofs 8980 0 (unused) umsdos 23936 0 (unused) msdos 4876 1 [umsdos] vfat 9292 0 (unused) fat 29496 0 [umsdos msdos vfat] af_packet 11752 1 rtc 5788 0 (autoclean) ext2 31744 4 (autoclean) ext3 58048 0 (autoclean) jbd 36744 0 (autoclean) [ext3] ide-disk 9920 6 (autoclean) ide-probe-mod 8752 0 (autoclean) ide-mod 151816 6 (autoclean) [ide-cd ide-disk ide-probe-mod] unix 13736 166 (autoclean) and the alsa section of /etc/modules.conf looks like: ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/alsa ### DEBCONF MAGIC # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 device_mode=0660 device_gid=29 device_uid=0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/alsa So I'm particularly bemused by the ``modinfo: snd: no module by that name found'' error - well, modprobe snd also says ``modprobe: Can't locate module snd'' So, bottom line is that I'm still silent :( -- Dr Garret Cotter http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~garret/ Department of Physics, Direct +44 (0) 1223 337312 University of Cambridge, Sec +44 (0) 1223 337294 Cambridge CB3 0HE UK Fax +44 (0) 1223 354599 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
