Hi, This question has been asked but I could not find an answer :
I have a PII with a PCI SB64 soundcard that requires the es1371 sound driver in the kernel. I installed my system (slink) without the sound and then compiled kernel 2.2.1 (and 2.2.9). Result : * /proc/sound does not exist * /dev/sndstat does not exist if I create it (using "sh /dev/MAKEDEV audio) it exists alright but does not support me doing 'cat /dev/sndstat * 'cat somefile > /dev/dsp' or 'cat somefile > /dev/audio' does nothing (it seems to lock up or does it wait for something ??) * the es1371 driver is the correct one (I checked with lspci -n) and it is found correctly; dmesg talks about the driver but not about "sound" * the sound-howto is quite outdated and does not suggest a solution... Anybody ? Thanks !!!! Gorik - please cc: your answer to me by mail, it doubles my chances not to mis it... ps : another problem : * if a scsi card and a sound card share the same IRQ, is that a problem (this does _not_ apply to the previous question !! :-) ) ??