RE: sound card detection problem

["Jon" <jmd000@myrealbox.com>]

> hi there:
> 
> I am installing woody on a system with creative vibra 128 
> sound card. Previously I had Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 7.3 
> installed on this 
> system and they both detected this soundcard without a 
> problem. However debain is not able to do so (when ever I try 
> playing a sound file, it gives me a "unable to open sound 
> device" error message), and I am not sure what module shall I 
> load for this card (openning modconf and going to the sound 
> card section, I can see no vibra or creative module). I have 
> loaded the OSS and the soundcore modules, but it seems they 
> were not enough. Any ideas?


Hi,

The module you need is 'es1371' for the Vibra 128 chipset. I put this on
a line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded up each time. If you haven't
done so already, you also need to add yourself to the audio group:

    adduser your_name audio


And also change the permissions on the audio devices:

    chmod o+rw /dev/dsp*
    chmod o+rw /dev/mixer*


After that you should have sound. At least, that works for me.


Jon.