Hello Josef Oswald (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) 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.
Right, but the alsa-base package does not contain any drivers anyway. But it does have some utilities, like an init script to save/restore the mixer settings and alsaconf to set up your module configuration properly. best regards Andreas Jansse -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]