On Fri 08 Dec 00, 1:21 PM, Eileen Orbell said... > Hi, > > I am having problems with sound. I installed a sound blaster 16 card and > then recompiled the kernel > and when I run startx and gnome starts up I get a error message saying: > Cannot connect to Sound Daemon the Sound Daemon can be started by running ESD. > If i typed esd at the command prompt I get the error: > > /dev/dsp no such device... a good sign that the module ain't loaded. > Am I missing something here? I did install the sound blaster 16 module > when recompiling my kernel. just because the module should've been loaded doesn't mean it was loaded *correctly*. the first thing to do is look at /var/log/messages and grep for any relevent information. also, look for irq conflicts in /proc/interrupts. unfortunately, module errors at boot don't get logged... pete
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