Sound was not installed, so I tried to set it up with sndconfig... # ll /dev/audio lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Oct 3 19:29 /dev/audio -> sound/audio # ll /dev/sound total 0 crw------- 1 pf root 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw------- 1 pf root 14, 5 Dec 31 1969 dspW crw------- 1 pf root 14, 1 Dec 31 1969 sequencer crw------- 1 pf root 14, 8 Dec 31 1969 sequencer2
"pf" is active on X (this userid was created with 8.1 since "pfortin"(circa LM6.0) is not allowed to use X now) Even after modprobing, and: # lsmod Module Size Used by snd-ens1370 9232 0 (unused) snd-pcm 35200 0 [snd-ens1370] snd-timer 9968 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ak4531-codec 15776 0 [snd-ens1370] snd-mixer 26656 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-ak4531-codec] snd-rawmidi 11232 0 [snd-ens1370] snd-seq-device 4256 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd 37808 0 [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ak4531-codec snd-mixer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] sound 60512 0 (unused) soundcore 4624 2 [snd sound] sndconfig still reports: ??????? PCI Probe Results ???????? ? ? ? The Ensoniq|ES1370 [AudioPCI] ? ? is not currently supported. ? Regards, Pierre On 4 Oct 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > But then, what gives an access try to /dev/audio with "mpg123" or "xmms" > > > or anything? You may also try to cat any file and redirect output to > > > /dev/dsp and /dev/audio, it should scratch on the audio output. > > > > I'll check sound when I get home; but in trying to install 8.1 on another > > machine with the same sound card; that one worked... the only major > > difference in installation was that the one with security=medium worked > > while security=high did not. While not conclusive, this the most obvious > > difference between the installations that comes to mind first. > > Check the permissions then. > > >
