hey,
have you created your sound devices (as root)?
# cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio
are you a member of the audio group?
those are two pretty common mistakes for NEWBIEs (actually I think
everyone makes them at some time or another--i know I have)
Cameron Matheson
Joe Nahmias wrote:
Hello All!
I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade,
but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound
card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on.
So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and
compiled in support for the card (CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y), with no success.
After booting the newly compiled kernel, the soundcard is recognized (see
dmesg output fragment below), but it is unusable, ie. 'cat /dev/sndstat'
returns: No such device.
I realize this is probably not a Debian specific question, but as
I have read the Sound-HOWTO about 13 times already, I figured it couldn't
hurt to ask here... I am enclosing the appropriate parts of /proc/pci and
dmesg output to help troubleshooting.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe Nahmias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS - Please cc me on all replies as I don't subscribe to this list.
PPS - I dual boot with Win 98SE on this machine, and sound is happy there.
================== Start /proc/pci excerpt
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 7).
Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max
Lat=128.
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
================== End /proc/pci excerpt
================== Start dmesg | grep es1371
es1371: version v0.28 time 03:31:17 Apr 3 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07
es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0xdc00 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x200
es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 8 (0x08)
es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D
================== End dmesg | grep es1371
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