Re: Sound ES1371 issues

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Sven Esbjerg wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:17:36AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > You need es1371 (based on your output from lspci below) and nothing else.
>
> > * Run 'modprobe es1371'
> > * Try to play a sound file - I like to use the package sox for that; it
> >   works better than cat'ing the file to /dev/dsp.
>
> You might want do a '/dev/MAKEDEV update' to update your devices to the new
> kernel. Also you might want to add something like this to /etc/modutils/aliases
>
> alias char-major-14 soundcore # basic sound capabilities
> alias sound-slot-0 es1371  # main sound card hardware driver
> alias sound-service-0-0 sound # mixer taken care of by sound.o
> alias sound-service-0-3 sound # /dev/dsp & /dev/audio support in sound.o
> alias sound-service-0-6 sound # /dev/sndstat support in sound.o
>
> and remember to run update-modules afterwards. You will now be able to access
> /dev/dsp as root. Twaek the rights for the audio-devices so that you can use
> them as user.
>
> Hope that could help you.
> --
> Sven Esbjerg
>

I appreciate the response.

The "/dev/MAKEDEV update" didn't result in anything different.

The /etc/modutils/alias file did not have those entries, so I added them; then I did
a "update-modules". Again, no difference in the results.

Before and after these changes I could cat things to /dev/dsp as root or a normal
user, but the results were less than optimal; sometimes just squeals, sometime almost
intelligible sound.