Re: Sound problems
You must compile sound into the kernel. See Sound How-to.
Tristan Day wrote:
>
> I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't
> like my sound card.
>
> Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't
> exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I
> looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas.
>
> nas tells me it can't connect to the audio server or something like that.
>
> I tried
>
> man nas
>
> which told me that nas is for playing sound over a network, so is this
> really what I want? All I want to do is:
> 1) Play CDs thru sound card
> 2) Listen to/Record .wav files
> 3) Listen to MIDI files
>
> Is there a package that I've missed that'll support my soundblaster 16
> compatible card?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tristan
>
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