Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Sound refuses to work although adding user rland to group audio > > You shoudl start, first, to see if you can get things working as > root. Then, at least, you know it's not a permissions problem. I > normally do not advocate doing things as root, but attempting to get > hardware working is one case where you need to do so. > > > Does lsmod help tp clarify: > > MINI:/home/rland# lsmod > > Module Size Used by > > > sound 57592 0 (unused) > > soundlow 416 0 [sound] > > soundcore 2628 3 [sound] > > This suggests you have the basic pieces -- the "hooks" -- for sound > loaded, but not the driver for your card. You probably need to go > and look under /lib/modules/[kernelvers]/sound and find the drivers > for your card. Then use insmod to insert the relevant modules; then > see if you have sound. If yes, then that's the problem.
Ok, it seems that although the Deb2.2 installation routine (on a clean disk) did not compile any OSS sound module. Looking in /lib/modules/2.2.17/ did not help, no file with a "OSS" in it. What is "soundlow" and "soundcore" used for? Debian provides the tool "xviddetect" (is this a 2.2.17 related function or one written by the debian developers?) which gave out: MINI:~# xviddetect Sorry, I wasn't able to determine a driver for your video card. This script only detects PCI and some SBUS devices. If you know, or figure out, which X driver to use, please submit a *wishlist* bug against this package with the appropriate info. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/ for information about submitting bugs. I will now display a list of PCI devices I found on your computer. Please send the line associated with your video device if you do find a driver. 80867190|i386|Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge 80867191|i386|Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge 80867110|i386|Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA 80867111|i386|Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE 80867112|i386|Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB 80867113|i386|Intel Corporation|82371 AB PIIX4 ACPI 12eb0001|i386|Aureal Semiconductor|Vortex 1 10ec8139|i386|Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|8139 10025246|i386|ATI Technologies Inc|Rage 128 GL AGP 1x/2x MINI:~# So I guess I have to recompile a module for Aureal/Vortex? Just having a look at the new system pertubed me - there is no /usr/src/linux directory! Just a /usr/src/redhat dir with several subdirs, but I guess the package enabling to use rehat rpms made that one. Anyone with the same experience and how can I compile a new kernel without the src's? Hoping for help Robert
