Re: Sound Card Blues
Kent thanks for the heklp I have had a look for /dev/sndstat but no such
file exist. How is this file created?
I am added to ythe audio group. When I try to enable Audio I get the
following message
"Audio was enabled for Enlightenment but there was an error communicating
with sound sever (Esound). Audio will now be disabled.
I have reinstalled Esound but I am getting no futrther with the problem.
dmesg gave no sound hardware-related messages.
lsmod gave
bash: lsmod: command not found
So still no joy. Any ideas .
Thanks again
on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:56:37PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> jmj@charm wrote:
>
> > Hello all
> > I have potato 2.2 installed on my system, I also have a Sound Blaster awe
> > 1024 card. A friend debian-user very kindly gave me a hand recompiling the
> > kernel to get the Sound Blaster drivers installed (this was magic as far as I
> > remember nothing comes to mind about how this was achieved). I have
> > installed freeamp as my mp3 player and I want to play mp3's from my windows
> > partition. The partition is mounted correctly and freeamp sees the files I
> > want to play. However when I try to run the files it tells me that audio is
> > not configured properly. I have looked through the list of HOWTO's in the
> > /usr/doc/HOWTO directory but can find nothing about sound specifically.
> > I would like to know how to check the Kernel configuration to see if the
> > right drivers were installed, and install them if necessary, also If I do
> > have the correct drivers installed how do I configure audio to get the card
> > working.
> > Thank you for taking the time to read this message
> > John-Mark
> >
> >
>
>
> I'm no expert, but here's some clues.
>
> Try the command "cat /dev/sndstat". This may or may not give you any info.
>
> You need to have access to the sound device files. Usually this means
> you need to be in the group "audio". I believe the correct command to
> add your user to that group is "adduser <username> audio". You'll then
> need to log out/in for this to take affect. The command "groups" should
> report what groups you're currently a member of.
>
> You also might try "cat <some .wav file> > /dev/audio".
>
> You can also do a "dmesg" to see any sound hardware-related messages
> that scrolled by on bootup.
>
> And an "lsmod" to see what sound modules are loaded, although you imply
> that the drivers were compiled into the kernel instead of as modules.
>
> None of these are solutions, but maybe they'll give you an extra piece
> to the puzzle.
>
>
>
--
John-Mark
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