i cant get my sound blaster live card to work under linux. i tried the rpm and the source tarball. on start i get a error that device /dev/dsp cant be found, ls shows it and i ran mknod(i might of did wrong flags, can any one tell me what i should of typed?). any ideas?
What did you install to get sound.. that would be just JUST A little helpfull
Also what distro and are you useing devfs?
What are the prems on /dev/dsp?
Can you use it as root? As regular user?
i tried everything!!! i want to know if it can be done!!!What did you install to get sound.. that would be just JUST A little helpfull
i played with the rpm and the tar ball for the chipset. i later reinstalled alsa. everything compiles fine(i had probelems at first with my smb kernel, but it didnt a recompile and rearranging anyway), but when i log into x it says it cant find /dev/dsp. i can see it with ls. i deleted it and mknod a new one(i looked up the numbers for it) and it still didnt work. then i figured maybe it cant write/read so i check every permission. and i know the card works.
im completly lost, im new to linux to, that not helping me alot.
the funny part is, i started in 6.2 and only tried a sound car in 9.
Ok so you installed ALSA?
What distro are you using. Did you try the kernel drivers? ARe you using devfs? Have you checked to make sure that the moduels for the sound device are installed? Have you tried OSS? I was having problmes with my chipset but then I got my hands on OSS and it works beautfully. Good enough that I purchased a liscense (normaly I would just setup a cron job to unmute my the card every hour or so).
What do you get with a lspci? does it show the sound card. Does it appear in the dmesg?
What tarballs do you mean (give me the name).
and above all.. remain calm. Think logicaly..
Also if you really want live help check out irc.xchat.com #linuxhelp
Im in there sometimes under the same nick
im using redhat 9. i recompiled my kernel with the sblive driver in it. the new hardware dection program(something like kudzo) did find the card. im using the file of of http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1/ , emu10k1-v0.20a.tar.bz2.
i thought devfs was just a template for the stuff in /dev, i already adding all the devices(dsp, audio, mixer).
i havnt tried oss yet.
i tried OSS, it doesnt like my smp kernel. does any one know why that even matters?
now i cant change my volume, it says it cant write to the mixer. so i changed the permissions(in x) and checked everything thing and restarted. the same thing, i check for the permissions and x(kde, well redhat bluecurve) didnt save it. why wont anything work?
does any one know what to do?Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
