From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Nugent Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 07:13:53 +0000 Subject: Re: Sound devices in /dev/ Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Tue May 02 2000 at 17:33, Craig Wright wrote: > 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 They aren't used with this driver (es1371), it's pci and therefore a very different beast. > 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. See the docs in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/* For the pci sound cards, use /proc and other such tools to get the info you need. > 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 Cool, it's not a bad card (got one myself here). The 3D stuff is awesome with windows games that know about it, and the switches are there for linux to use it too. (Although I must admit that I've never tried the 3D sound for linux - anyone got a program or sound file that will "show it off" ?) > I think this is all relevant, but I don't know for sure. Can anyone > help? I'm no sound driver guru, so perhaps someone else might want to make things a lot clearer than I have. AFAIK, /dev/sndstat and co. are obselete and don't work for pci-based sound cards, they only have relevance for the older isa sound cards. Cheers Tony