On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:08, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:12, Peder Chr.Nørgaard wrote: > > The interesting thing is that the kernel has loaded a bunch of sound > > modules: > > Most of those are alsa modules. Try installing the alsa-base and > alsa-utils packages and reboot. After the reboot, you will probably have > to adjust the volume level once (it's zero by default). > > If that does get sound working, try running alsa-conf. > > Please let us know if this solved your problem.
Thank you for quick and working advice. I did install alsa-base and alsa-utils (which pulled in linux-sound-base). That was not in itself enough - I also had to install package discover - that was suggested by the alsa packages. (OK, it was really an upgrade; debian-installer had installed package discover1, and package discover is a newer version of that). After that, the udev did create a /dev/dsp for me. So now my problem is solved. However, I would suggest that this is really a task for debian-installer - either simply unconditional installation of alsa (and the newest discover), or give the user an option to "install sound". As a bare minimum, the hint you gave me here ought to be available somewhere in the installation guide. It isn't for now, and the various HOWTOs on sound are completely outdated - from the epoch before 2.6 kernels, udev and ALSA. best regards -- Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gefionsvej 19 spejder-e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-8230 Åbyhøj tel: +45 87 44 11 99 Denmark mob: +45 30 91 84 31