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?
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