---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Debian is not for me Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:43:25 -0700 From: Clayton Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for the help SOUND is now working. Looking at /proc/pci showed that es1371 was included so that running modprobe es1371 did install it. But had to go to /dev/hdd and add myself to the user disk and now I can listen to any of my music cd's. Clay Stapleton On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:26:03PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: > > It is a Sound Blaster 16 PCI sound card. The system BIOS is set to recognize > > PnP cards and is used by Win 98 and Suse 6.4 distro's so I do not want to > > change it. The sound chip is a Ensoniq 1371, IRQ 11 and i/o=6800-683F. I > > have read the PnP Howto and Alsa mini-Howto with no clue on how to get > > the sound card recognized. Any help would be appricated. > > If it *IS* a PCI card, then . . . ISA PnP has nothing to do with it. > > Log on as root, do: > > cat /proc/pci > > and look for your card. Is it there? > > Then, try loading the es1371 module: > > modprobe es1371 > > Then, make sure you have added "yourself" (whoever "yourself" is that > is trying to run an audio application) to the audio group. > > That should work, unless you are out of resources. > > I have a Sound Blaster 16 PCI card, and it runs just fine. > > John S. -------------------------------------------------------

