Sven Esbjerg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:17:36AM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > You need es1371 (based on your output from lspci below) and nothing else. > > > * Run 'modprobe es1371' > > * Try to play a sound file - I like to use the package sox for that; it > > works better than cat'ing the file to /dev/dsp. > > You might want do a '/dev/MAKEDEV update' to update your devices to the new > kernel. Also you might want to add something like this to > /etc/modutils/aliases > > alias char-major-14 soundcore # basic sound capabilities > alias sound-slot-0 es1371 # main sound card hardware driver > alias sound-service-0-0 sound # mixer taken care of by sound.o > alias sound-service-0-3 sound # /dev/dsp & /dev/audio support in sound.o > alias sound-service-0-6 sound # /dev/sndstat support in sound.o > > and remember to run update-modules afterwards. You will now be able to access > /dev/dsp as root. Twaek the rights for the audio-devices so that you can use > them as user. > > Hope that could help you. > -- > Sven Esbjerg >
I appreciate the response. The "/dev/MAKEDEV update" didn't result in anything different. The /etc/modutils/alias file did not have those entries, so I added them; then I did a "update-modules". Again, no difference in the results. Before and after these changes I could cat things to /dev/dsp as root or a normal user, but the results were less than optimal; sometimes just squeals, sometime almost intelligible sound.
