[Sderby] No Sound?

James Gibbon sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Apr 15 22:23:01 2003


Chris wrote:

> I'm having probs getting sound through using MD 9.0.  Using my onboard 
> soundcard, I just get an error message at boot that there's no such 
> device as /dev/dsp, which there isn't.  The /dev folder contains no file 
> or folder of this name.  The MD control centre provided no configuration 
> options.
> 
> Assuming poor support for onboard chips, I bought and fitted a card with 
> a C-Media chip, having checked that it is definitely supported.  Same 
> result :-(

try doing '/sbin/modprobe sb' as root - if that doesn't give you 
working audio, does it at least give you /dev/dsp?

James