Re: Sound devices in /dev/

[Jonathan Oppenheim <jono@Phys.UAlberta.CA>]

i would have thought that sndconfig would have made those
devices, but maybe it just instals  the driver.

did you run it?

j

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Craig Wright wrote:

>
>
>Hi, 
>
>I just got a soundblaster 16 pci and after some trouble got it working a 
>little bit.  I can play CD's with workman and the sound comes out of the
>card.  That's good :), but I'm missing /dev/audio and /dev/sndstat and any
>other sound device that I may need.  (I don't know what the others may
>be, /dev/dsp?)  Anyway I've run /dev/MAKEDEV and nothing new is created.
>I'm at a hurdle I can't jump by myself.  Can anyone help me?  I've tried
>using mknod myself, but don't know why they mean by minor and major device
>numbers mean.  
>
>Here is the output from the kernel on bootup:
>
>es1371: version v0.19 time 00:44:39 May  1 2000
>es1371: found adapter at io 0xe000 irq 5
>es1371: features: joystick 0x200
>es1371: codec vendor CRY revision 19
>es1371: codec features Headphone out 20bit DAC 18bit ADC
>es1371: stereo enhancement: Crystal Semiconductor 3D Stereo Enhancement
>
>and here is the output from lspci.  
>
>
>00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04)
>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 04)
>00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)
>00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev c3)
>00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
>00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 06)
>00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c1)
>
>
>I think this is all relevant, but I don't know for sure.  Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks in advance, 
>
>-- 
>Craig             
><spiral@cs.unm.edu>
>

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