Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:15:56AM +, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2004 8:25 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > > > What the hell do I need to do to get the souncard working? > > > > Load the driver. ac97 is not sufficient. And add yourself to the audio > > group to solve the pe

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now

2004-02-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve Hargreaves (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now > I've got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct > modules are used. > > Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required > modules (don't

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now

2004-02-06 Thread Steve Hargreaves
On Friday 06 February 2004 2:29 pm, Sam Halliday wrote: Thanks for the reply (and Adam, who gave similar advice). > > /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > > hmm... are you running your system as the root user all the time? if so, > SERIOUSLY consider installing a user for yourself and set up a graphical > log

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now

2004-02-06 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:09 am, Steve Hargreaves wrote: > OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've > got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules > are used. Good. > Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required > mod

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now

2004-02-06 Thread Sam Halliday
Steve Hargreaves wrote: > Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules no need to do that... just add the modules you want to load into the file "/etc/modules" (no need for the insmod command) and the debian bootscripts will load them and their dependencies automagicall

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve Hargreaves (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2004 8:25 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> > What the hell do I need to do to get the souncard working? >> >> Load the driver. ac97 is not sufficient. And add yourself to the >> audio group to solve the permission problem

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-06 Thread Steve Hargreaves
On Friday 06 February 2004 8:25 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > What the hell do I need to do to get the souncard working? > > Load the driver. ac97 is not sufficient. And add yourself to the audio > group to solve the permission problems. OK - having checked - the alsa drivers were not installed

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-06 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Steve (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I > can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also > installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either doesn't exist > or permission denied - it tends to vary). De

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-05 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-06, Steve penned: > OK - I'm pretty much a complete novice - and need walking by the hand. > > I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I > can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also > installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either

Re: Soundcard probs and total novice

2004-02-05 Thread Sam Halliday
Steve wrote: > I have an onboard soundcard that should conform to the ac97 module. I > can insmod ac97, and the associated modules. Soundcore is also > installed - but /dev/dsp is still not available (either doesn't exist > or permission denied - it tends to vary). > > What the hell do I need to