Re: Using sound on Debian?

[Conrado Badenas <Conrado.Badenas@uv.es>]

Milan Durovic wrote:
> 
> This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out
> how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian
> before and I installed it only recently.
> 
> When I run 'saytime', logged in as root, I get error
> message:
> 
> opening /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device
> 
> and /dev/audio is:
> 
> crw-rw----  root audio   14, 4
> 
> Similarly, when I run 'asmixer', I get:
> 
> asmixer: unable to grab /dev/mixer
> 
> and /dev/mixer exists with the following permissions:
> 
> crw-rw----   root  audio   14, 0
> 
> I don't remember any choices I had to made during the
> installation that had anything to do with sound. I have SB16
> ISA card which works OK under Win95.
> 
> What have I missed?
> 
> Regards,
> Milan

I have the same problem with xmix (mixer in X). I posted a request of
help last week, and I was told that I should recompile the kernel:

:You have to compile the kernel with /dev/audio enabled.

I haven't done it yet (I'm reluctant on changing the kernel), so I don't
know whether it works with my SB16 ISA card.

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