Re: No sound in Sarge
Hello
Josef Oswald (<oswald@chello.at>) wrote:
> Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> writes:
>> dougpol1@adelphia.net (<dougpol1@adelphia.net>) wrote:
>>
>>> Have installed Sarge and am getting an error
>>> messege.
>>> Error initializing sound server device /dev/dsp can't be
>>> opened(no such device)sound driver will continue, using
>>> the null output.
>>> Is this a device i can download and install maybe with
>>> aptget?
>>
>> You need to load the driver for your sound card. If you use Kernel
>> 2.6, installing discover and/or hotplug can probably do that. You can
>> also load it at boot time by adding the module name to /etc/modules.
>> To do that, you have of course to find out which driver you need. Use
>> lspci and a search engine to find out. If you want to use the alsa
>> drivers, install the alsa-base package and run alsaconfig. After
>> loading the driver, make sure you are in the audio group.
>
> Most Alsa-divers are already in the Kernel, I know for the
> Sound-blaster Live 5.1 I am using I could pick it when I compiled the
> kernel.
Right, but the alsa-base package does not contain any drivers anyway.
But it does have some utilities, like an init script to save/restore
the mixer settings and alsaconf to set up your module configuration
properly.
best regards
Andreas Jansse
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