I just bought a Sound Blaster 16 PCI card and it wont work on my RedHat 9.0
system.  I get an error that "/dev/dsp" does not exit.  But when I got to
the folder I can see it.  Any ideas?  Thanks for any help.

Lamar

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:43:21 -0800 Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:

> I just bought a Sound Blaster 16 PCI card and it wont work on my RedHat 9.
0
> system.  I get an error that "/dev/dsp" does not exit.  But when I got to
> the folder I can see it.  Any ideas?  Thanks for any help.
>
> Lamar


Be sure the kernel modules for sound are loaded, should be for you
soundcore and sb. You can list loaded modules with command "lsmod".

Alexander


--
Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999
PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416  14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
quote:

> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 23:43:21 -0800 Lamar Thomas wrote:
> 
>
> Be sure the kernel modules for sound are loaded, should be for you
> soundcore and sb. You can list loaded modules with command "lsmod".
>
> Alexander
>
>

Hey Alex,

soundcore is there but not sb.  Here is the "ls":

[root@rottie lamart]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
soundcore               6404   6  (autoclean)
agpgart                47776   3  (autoclean)
nvidia               1766848  11  (autoclean)
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sis900                 16812   1
sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
microcode               4668   0  (autoclean)
ide-scsi               12208   0
scsi_mod              107160   3  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 35708   0
cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   13004   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
mousedev                5492   1
hid                    22148   0  (unused)
input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd               19976   0  (unused)
usb-ohci               21480   0  (unused)
usbcore                78784   1  [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
ext3                   70784   7
jbd                    51892   7  [ext3]
[root@rottie lamart]#

Anything I should be looking for?

Lamar

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:10:37 -0800 Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:

> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> Hey Alex,
>
> soundcore is there but not sb.  Here is the "ls":
>
> [root@rottie lamart]# lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
> soundcore               6404   6  (autoclean)
> agpgart                47776   3  (autoclean)
> nvidia               1766848  11  (autoclean)
> parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
> parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> autofs                 13268   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> sis900                 16812   1
> sg                     36524   0  (autoclean)
> sr_mod                 18136   0  (autoclean)
> microcode               4668   0  (autoclean)
> ide-scsi               12208   0
> scsi_mod              107160   3  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi]
> ide-cd                 35708   0
> cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
> nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
> nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
> vfat                   13004   1  (autoclean)
> fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
> keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
> mousedev                5492   1
> hid                    22148   0  (unused)
> input                   5856   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
> ehci-hcd               19976   0  (unused)
> usb-ohci               21480   0  (unused)
> usbcore                78784   1  [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
> ext3                   70784   7
> jbd                    51892   7  [ext3]
> [root@rottie lamart]#
>
> Anything I should be looking for?
>
> Lamar


Hi Lamar!

Have a look at /etc/modules.conf where settings for your soundcard modules
should be stored. Load all needed kernel modules and you will get sound
using the dsp device.

Alexander


--
Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999
PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416  14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Lamar Thomas wrote:
quote:

> I just bought a Sound Blaster 16 PCI card and it wont work on my RedHat 9.
0
> system.  I get an error that "/dev/dsp" does not exit.  But when I got to
> the folder I can see it.  Any ideas?  Thanks for any help.
>
> Lamar
>


Use sndconfig to configure your soundcard.  The package isn't installed
by default.  You'll find it on one of the installation CDs.

Tony.

--
To email me replace the org.nz with net.nz

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]