Re: Sound: "no sndstat device", yet there it is
Kent West wrote:
> According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of
> date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat
> /dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I
> get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". Yet when I do an "ls -l
> \dev\snd*" I get:
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 6 Oct 1 16:46 /dev/sndstat
> which is pretty much what the howto suggests I should get.
>
> If I run "saytime" or play some other sound utility, etc, I hear a dit,
> like something's being played VERY fast, so I suspect it may be related
> to an IRQ conflict or something, but this is a PCI card (ES137x) which I
> thought was more or less PnP. Of course I'm still very green in
> LinuxLand, so it could be something very simple that I'm
> stupidly/ignorantly overlooking.
>
> Apparently the dmesg "queue" has been replaced with other system events
> since the last reboot; is there anyway I can get to that information
> without rebooting (after all, reboots are for that other OS...)?
>
> Thanks for any help!
I did a "rmmod es1371" and then an "insmod es1371" and then was able to see some info
via dmesg. dmesg returned:
es1371: unloading
es1371: version v0.11 time 15:59:48 Sep 10 1999
es1371: found adapter at io 0x1080 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3
es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
es1371: unloading
es1370: version v0.20 time 15:59:44 Sep 10 1999
es1371: version v0.11 time 15:59:48 Sep 10 1999
es1371: found adapter at io 0x1080 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 3
es1371: codec features Headphone out 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
Does this look okay?
Related question: Do I need isapnptools for a PCI card (I don't think so). Should
"pnpdump" return any info on this card? The last line is "#No boards found". Or is
"pnpdump" just for ISA PnP cards?
Thanks.
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