Ian Stirling wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > I did not see the entries you mentioned. So I put those entries that you > > mentioned > > in, and commented out the "soundcore" entry already in the file. Then I did > > a "rmmod > > es1371" and "rmmod soundcore", then did "insmod sound" and got a message > > that the > > sound module was not found." > > > > So I undid all my changes and will ignore sound capabilities for another > > few weeks > > until it becomes more important to me again, unless of course you have a > > suggestion > > that might solve my problem. > > Hi Kent, > > Will you give it another try? > modprobe es1371 or insmod es1371 > > Ian
Here's the relevant portion of my original /etc/conf.modules file, along with a line or two above and below: alias char-major-4 serial alias char-major-10-130 softdog alias char-major-14 soundcore alias iso9660 isofs Per your instructions to Jon, I changed it to this: alias char-major-4 serial alias char-major-10-130 softdog #alias char-major-14 soundcore alias char-major-14 es1371 alias sound es1371 alias iso9660 isofs Then I did a "rmmod es1371". If I try "saytime" now, I get "opening /dev/audio: No such device" (which is not surprising to me). Then if I do a "modprobe es1371" followed by a "saytime", I still get very scratchy, and incomplete, output. If I try to play a sound file, such as "splay filename.au" I get nothing. If I cat that file, such as "cat filename.au > /dev/audio" I again get very scratchy output. The Sound Howto says that I should be able to "cat /dev/sndstat" and get some info on the card. When I try this, and although the file exists in the /dev directory, I get a "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". So basically I just live without sound (which only hurts when I'm showing someone the neat aspects of Linux, and then can't play a sound file).
