[ILUG] Sound under 2.6

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:54:02 +0000, Sarah Fortune <fortunes at tcd.ie> 
wrote:

> I can't get sound to work with my 2.6.9 kernel. I get:
>         sjf at deborah:~$ cat < /dev/dsp
>         -bash: /dev/dsp: No such device
>
> But clearly the device does exist:
>
>         sjf at deborah:~$ ls -al /dev/dsp
>         crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 3 2004-07-09 01:08 /dev/dsp

That merely shows that the DEVICE NODE (file) exists. What distribution 
is this? Have you tried any other distributions? Have you tried 
knoppix? knoppix is wonderful because it's a bootable CD, hence you can 
test in a completely non-destructive manner, and it has amazingly good 
hardware detection. If knoppix works, then you take note of how knoppix 
has configured your hardware and map this to your installed 
distribution.



Niall