According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat /dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". Yet when I do an "ls -l \dev\snd*" I get: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 6 Oct 1 16:46 /dev/sndstat which is pretty much what the howto suggests I should get.
If I run "saytime" or play some other sound utility, etc, I hear a dit, like something's being played VERY fast, so I suspect it may be related to an IRQ conflict or something, but this is a PCI card (ES137x) which I thought was more or less PnP. Of course I'm still very green in LinuxLand, so it could be something very simple that I'm stupidly/ignorantly overlooking. Apparently the dmesg "queue" has been replaced with other system events since the last reboot; is there anyway I can get to that information without rebooting (after all, reboots are for that other OS...)? Thanks for any help!
