Re: /dev/dsp problem
> Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:34:49AM +0200, Martin Batermann wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a sound driver problem. When I try to start the
> > sound server (via KDE's Preferences -> Sound -> Sound
> > Server), it gives me a message: Error wile initializing
> > the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such
> > device).
> >
> > I would appreciate any advice on solving this problem.
>
> Is your sound driver loaded? Use /sbin/lsmod to find out what drivers
> are loaded, and if your sound drivers are not loaded, find out what
> they are, and modprobe $DRIVER.
I had the same problem some days ago. It _was_ the missing driver
(module) for the sound card. If you want to find out, what kind of card
you have, you can look in /proc/pci (assuming it is pci-card) or install
kudzu and look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.
Once you found out what module you need (in my case es1370) try loading
it with modprobe or insmod. If this doesn't seem to work (as was the
case with me), install kernel 2.4 instead of standard 2.2 (don't know
why, but module es1370 wasn't available in the standard kernel.)
Hope this helps,
Christian
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