Hi, There are a couple of things you could look out for to check whether sound is working. As root, run:
# cat /dev/sndstat It should say something like: Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) (DUPLEX) If that works, look for a .au file on your machine (eg by using locate .au), and run: # cat foo.au > /dev/audio You should hear a sound here :) Getting sound to work in Debian is definitely more tricky than doing so in Suse or Redhat. If you've still got your Suse partition, try looking for the sb kernel modules options in /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf, and use those values in Debian. That's what I did. The settings I used are: options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 If you have the sb kernel module (eg from kernel-image-2.2.19), you shouldn't have to recompile your kernel just as yet. As for MP3/CD players, I use xmms. To get xmms to work with the sb kernel module, you'd need to change your preferences to use the libOSS output plugin instead of the Esound one. Hope that helps. -hoeteck
