Re: newbie soundcard problem
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:29:32AM -0500, nick phillips wrote:
> hello debian laptop list!
>
> i'm a complete linux newbie who's recently installed debian 2.2.17 on a
> toshiba tecra 8000. everything seems to have worked ok except for the
> soundcard. i use wmaker, and using the cdplayer or other sound utilities i
> get no sound whatsoever. when i run gnome-session, i get a string of error
> messages saying '\dev\dsp: no such device." when i run 'car \dev\sndstat' i
> show no drivers loaded.
>
> so, all this leads me to believe i need to load a driver for the soundcard,
> which is a yamaha opl-sa3. however, i'm not sure how i do that! i tried
> running dselect, but i don't see any sound driver packages, and i'm kind of
> at a loss as to how to configure the sound driver. if someone could help me
> out, or point me towards a website that would help, i would really
> appreciate it!
There aren't any packages per se; all the drivers you need are part of
the kernel. Use modconf to load the one you need.
HTH & HAND,
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Mike Alborn <malborn@odoitau.dyn.dhs.org>
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