/dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?
I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 (CT4810)
working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have added the
relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting "No such device" errors
when trying:
cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav > /dev/audio
I have searched the howtos and newsgroups and it seems I don't have the
correct driver compiled into my kernel. As I've never compiled a kernel
before, I thought I'd check if there's anything else I can try to get it
working?
lspci gives:
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
So it seems to pick up the card. (Not sure if it's the right one though, do
SBs have Ensoniq chips?) However, dmesg doesn't print any info at all about
soundcards. lsmod doesn't list anything sound-related and /lib/modules only
contains one file called 2.2.20-idepci. cat /dev/sndstat also gives a "No
such device" error.
How can I find out which driver I need and is there any way of adding it
without recompiling the kernel?
Many thanks,
Erik
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