The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare away
any chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must
it be this difficult? The average Joe doesn't have time to reinvent the wheel when
all he wants to do is drive off in a new car.
Sorry, I'm somewhat dishearten about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the
greater evil... so back to pounding out this
wheel.
Seve.
-----Original Message-----
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
>On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
>
>> >ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device?
>>
>> I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer #
>> & I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer
>
>c tells it's a character device
>r read access for owner
>w write access for owner
>- nothing this is usualy x which is executable
>r read access for group
>w write access for group
>- nothing same as before, these can also be other things like s for suid
>r read access for anyone
>w write access for anyone
>
>So yes you have access to /dev/mixer
>
>> How would you interpret this?
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> also...
>> >lsmod # do you see anything that might be a sound driver?
>>
>> I get:
>> Module Size Used by
>> sound 57272 0 (autoclean) (unused)
>> soundlow 300 0 (autoclean) [sound]
>> soundcore 2372 3 (autoclean) [sound]
>
>This is sound, but i do not see a driver for any specific card. I assume
>you ran sndconfig as root? what does the conf.modules look like?
>
>rmmod sound
>rmmod soundlow
>rmmod soundcore
>modprobe sound > ~/sounds.broke 2>&1
>
>Now whats ~/sounds.broke have in it? (less ~/sounds.broke) errors?
>also maybe something in /var/log/messages. (tail -n10 /var/log/messages)
>
>> nls-iso-8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
>
>This is a charset.. (modinfo -d nls-iso-8859-1 # Might say better)
>
>> nsfd 150648 1 (autoclean)
>> lockd 30888 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
>> sunrpc 52644 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
>
>nfs modules
>
>> rtl8139 11964 1 (autoclean)
>
>your ethernet card.. (modinfo -d rtl8139)
>
>> Now, how do you interpret that data? How do you know if it lists the sound driver?
>
>Umm cause it says "sound" three times in a row ;)
>
>> Thanks,
>> Seve
>
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> --Axalon
>
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