Hello Erik Jälevik (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 > (CT4810) working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have > added the relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting "No > such device" errors when trying: > > cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav > /dev/audio > > lspci gives: > 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) A quick search on <http://groups.google.com> shows that you probably need the es1371 driver for your hardware. First of all, the driver does not have to be compiled into the kernel. It can be compiled as a module that is loaded at boottime or when needed. To load the driver at boottime, add a line es1371 to your /etc/modules. To load it when needed, add a line alias sound-slot-0 es1371 to your /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules. Next, add yourself to the autio group, otherwise you will get permission errors next. > So it seems to pick up the card. (Not sure if it's the right one > though, do SBs have Ensoniq chips?) However, dmesg doesn't print any > info at all about soundcards. lsmod doesn't list anything > sound-related and /lib/modules only contains one file called > 2.2.20-idepci. cat /dev/sndstat also gives a "No such device" error. That is the directory (not file) where the kernel modules are located. That are all the drivers that were not compiled into the kernel. You are using the 2.2.20-idepci kernel. Going to <http://packages.debian.org> and searching for "es1371.o" shows that that kernel (the standard installation kernel?) does not have the driver you need. So the easiest way would be to install another kernel image, for example apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20 or apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-$arch Most of the kernel image packages have the driver you need. Use apt-cache search kernel-image to get a list and apt-cache show name_of_package to get more info on an specific package. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
