Getting sound to work in Debian [Archive]

eyesore

03-01-2001, 04:34 AM

hey ppls,

I've got Debian 2.2 which I installed about 4 days ago, and I still cant seem to get my soundcard working. I've compiled support for my soundcard (SB16 PnP) into the kernel as a module (using kernel 2.2.17, which came with it). But I'm not sure where to go from here... I try to run the Gnome CD player and it doesn't work, same with gnapster... ESD keeps saying that /dev/dsp does not exist.
Can anybody help me? =)

Strike

03-01-2001, 05:24 AM

su to root
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV
ls -l /dev/dsp

If you get an error, then.. that's weird. If you don't, you're good so far.

chmod 777 /dev/dsp

And you should be good to go.

Basically, I had you run the MAKEDEV script which should recreate a whole bunch of device files on your system (one of which is /dev/dsp). Then I had you check and make sure it was there with ls. And lastly I had you change the permissions on it so that everyone (all users) could read and write to it with chmod.