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Re: audio problems



Amit Shah <shahamit@gmx.net> writes:
> I can't seem to get sound working here... I've added the user Amit to the
> audio group, and installed esd* and alsa*. I don't have alsa modules in the
> kernel, but I guess it should work with oss. I have ac97 audio system.
>
> Amit@magrathea:~$ cat > /dev/dsp
> bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
> Amit@magrathea:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 15  2002 /dev/dsp

That almost always means that you don't have a driver for your sound
card installed.  Did you compile your own kernel?  Did you compile the
ALSA modules?  What does /sbin/lsmod say?

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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