On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:11:10 +0100, João Santos wrote: > 2006/6/16, Florian Reitmeir: > > > >On Fre, 16 Jun 2006, João Santos wrote: > > > >> I've recently installed debian in my laptop and everything works fine > >> except the sound. > >> When I try to use some program that uses sound I get the error: "Device > >> dev/dsp does not exist". How can I solve this? > > > >this message indicates the application is searching for an OSS sound > >driver. > > > >make sure: > >- you've run as root, "alsaconf" from the package "alsa-utils" > >- your user is in the group "audio" > >- lsmod | grep oss is hittig some alsa modules > > > >if above isn't helping you, please post the output of "lspci" > > > >-- > >Florian Reitmeir > > > > > > when I run alsaconf it says that no supported PnP or PCI card was found. > > The output of lspci is:
[...] > 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown > device 4 370 (rev 02) Googling for this turns up information about sound on a Toshiba with the same soundcard: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/triffid/toshiba/installLinux.html The instructions involve some compiling, but the guy uses an older version of Red Hat; newer kernels might have the driver included already. The easiest thing for you could be to install a backport of the 2.6.16 kernel. (The required module is "atiixp", but the 2.6.8 version might be too old to include support for your chipset.) -- Regards, Florian
