Re: No sound in Sarge
Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> writes:
> Hello
>
> dougpol1@adelphia.net (<dougpol1@adelphia.net>) wrote:
>
>> Have installed Sarge and am getting an error
>> messege.
>> Error initializing sound server device /dev/dsp can't be
>> opened(no such device)sound driver will continue, using
>> the null output.
>> Is this a device i can download and install maybe with
>> aptget?
>
> You need to load the driver for your sound card. If you use Kernel 2.6,
> installing discover and/or hotplug can probably do that. You can also
> load it at boot time by adding the module name to /etc/modules. To do
> that, you have of course to find out which driver you need. Use lspci
> and a search engine to find out. If you want to use the alsa drivers,
> install the alsa-base package and run alsaconfig. After loading the
> driver, make sure you are in the audio group.
Most Alsa-divers are already in the Kernel, I know for the Sound-blaster
Live 5.1 I am using I could pick it when I compiled the kernel.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
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