From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Francois Ortolo Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:10:14 +0000 Subject: /dev/audio, /dev/dsp not running for an es1371 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hello I have Linux RedHat6.1 installed, with a Creative Lab SoundBlaster PCI 128 in the box. It's not a clone, the chip is a Creative Lab chip. The sndconfig detects an Ensoniq card, for which it installs an es1371 module in /etc/conf.modules While doing this, the generated speech is well heard by me, so I might believe that all is all right. However, a 'cat /dev/sndstat' then reports "no device with this type", and the /dev/audio0 and /dev/dsp0 don't appear in their directory. So, a try for reading from anyone either of the /dev/audio or /dev/dsp with the command: 'dd bs=8k count=5 sample.au' or the same with /dev/dsp... It doesn't read anything, such that the sample.au file contains always the same character, indicating that there is only a silence. So the command 'cat sample.au > /dev/audio' gives only a 5 seconds silence, the same with the /dev/dsp interface. Although, under the Gnome Windows Manager, the sounds appear fine for any events they are set up for. So I can't understand which way Gnome is successful with its sound managering, though the /dev/audio and /dev/dsp interfaces are not available yet. Any help cheerfully welcome. Jean Francois