On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:55:34PM -0400, Scott Thomas wrote: > On Tuesday 30 May 2006 6:45 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > <snip> > > /dev/dsp is for OSS sound, while your Debian installation will be using > > ALSA by default. Look for /proc/asound as evidence; /proc/asound/cards > > should list detected sound cards. > > OK, I checked that and can see what looks like evidence of the problem: > > 0 [IXP ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP > ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0003400, irq 10
> It seems the sound card is not being recognized properly. I'm not sure how to > tell it what it needs. Does the kernel (via dmesg or kern.log) report any errors? Unknown codec does sound like a problem. It's most likely a driver issue and not something you can fix except by upgrading ALSA. Which kernel do you have? > Just an aside, another person responded by saying to "use udev, that should > take care of the devices." As far as I can see, udev is being used, but I > don't know enough about udev to know how I can correct this problem. udev creates the relevant entries in /dev/snd, but it won't be the cause here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
