Re: Using sound on Debian?

[Tapio Lehtonen <Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI>]

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.
>

If you do not want to compile the kernel for sound support, you can purchase Open
Sound System from http://www.4front-tech.com. I use it, works well. But note, that it
is commercial software.

> 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
>
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