Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 >>>> apt-get? >>> >>> 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.
Thanks for pointing this out. > > 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 -- LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]