On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:20:01AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > Does cat /dev/sndstat work? > > Check if sound is compiled in or loaded when a sound request happens > (check logs). > > Jens
Ah ha. The kernel log reports the following: kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? I don't doubt that when I was configuring isapnp I made a mistake. Can you give me any more help with this. I have read the sound HOWTO and the isapnp docs, but when it comes to reading the pnpdump file I find it pretty bewildering. As I mentioned in my initial post, the fact that I had this working on a Deb 1,3 system was more good luck than anything else. The pnpdump output often says to choose only one of a selection, but I am never sure which one to choose, nor in fact which of several lines constitute a single choice. Here is the output from cat /dev/sndstat: ------------------- cat /dev/sndstat ----------------- Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue Mar 23 11:47:08 PST 1999 root, Linux humble 2.0.34 #1 Sun Mar 21 10:18:45 PST 1999 i586 unknown) Kernel: Linux humble 2.0.34 #1 Tue Mar 23 11:48:33 PST 1999 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 5: Roland MPU-401 Type 8: 6860 UART Midi Type 2: Sound Blaster Type 7: SB MPU-401 Card config: Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 0,1 Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 12 drq 0 6860 UART Midi irq 11 drq 0 (SB MPU-401 at 0x800 irq 5 drq 0) OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 Audio devices: 0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL-3 Midi devices: 0: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1 1: 6850 UART Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster ------------------ end cat /dev/sndstat -------------- Thanks, Gerald > > "G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I can't write to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, even as root. The > > permissions on both are crw-rw----. I discovered when trying to set up > > RealAudio for a Linux broadcast. When I tried to cat a file to either of > > these devices I get "cat: write error: Input/output error". >