The card in question is an Aureal Vortex 3D. After some fruitless kernel-wrestling I discovered the only Linux support is with OSS. So I got an eval license of that and compiled it for my system (kernel 2.2.13 SMP) However when I execute soundon and try and play something, there are no errors but I don't hear anything either! My speakers are plugged in correctly i'm pretty sure of that.
cat /dev/sndstat reports this: OSS/Linux 3.9.2y (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1999 License serial number: E00000008 This Open Sound System copy is licensed for limited evaluation use only. You can order a permanent OSS license from http://www.opensound.com/order.html License will expire after: 06/2000 Options: ALL *** Activity time of this evaluation version is limited *** Build: 2.2.13-SMP Card config: Aureal Vortex at 0xe9000000 irq 10 Software mixing (audio) Audio devices: 0: Aureal Vortex 2 (AU8830) (DUPLEX) 1: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #0 2: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #1 3: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #2 4: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #3 5: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #4 6: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #5 7: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #6 8: SoftOSS v1.2 CH #7 Synth devices: 0: SoftOSS v1.2 Midi devices: 0: Aureal Vortex 2 Timers: 0: System clock 1: SoftOSS Mixers: 0: Aureal Vortex 2 (STAC9708) 1: SoftOSS The permissions on all the devices look ok to me. What went wrong? I thought this might be because I am not a member of group audio (which owns the audio devices) which led to another problem. With PAM, login supposedly uses /etc/security/groups.conf to add groups on login. I added the following line: *; tty* ;*;!Al0000-2400;floppy,audio,lp but this doesn't seem to do anything. Why? and what's the correct way of adding console users to groups? This card also has a joystick port. I compiled modules for my Microsoft sidewinder joystick, attached it to the correct port, used MAKEDEV to creat the js devices in /dev, loaded the joystick module in /etc/X11/XF86Config and for good measure rebooted. However it still doesn't work either. Even after insmod'ing the joystick module, when I run the xjscal program, I get the message: Cannot open /dev/js0 even as root. The permissions on /dev/js0 are: crw-rw---- 1 root root 15, 0 Jan 7 08:57 /dev/js0 Once again, what did I do wrong? I realize I've asked a lot of questions today. Any and all answers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>