Hi all, I'm using beta4, and I just got a sound card to go in my newly assembly computer. I ended up buying a cheap one, but I figured it'd be ok since the box said "linux supported". It's an audio excel av515m, using the c-media 8738 6-ch chipset. It came with a cmpci driver, but that's also part of the kernel, looks like. But anyway, I also saw that it is supported by alsa using the snd-card-cmipci driver. Trouble is, I can't get anything to work. Something's screwy with devfs.
I've got nothing in /dev/sound. There's no /dev/snd or /dev/asound, which I thought would be there for alsa. There's no /dev/dsp or /dev/mixer which are old oss holdouts, I believe. DrakConf doesn't recognize that I have a sound card. It throws up four "Via Technologies Unknown" lines under "Other Devices" in the hardware section, along with another "Unknown". It says to send the /proc/bus/* files to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which I can do, but I wanted to check with the cooker list first. In the /proc/bus/pci directory, I have a devices file, and two directories, 00, and 01. The only other pci device I have is a netword card which is correctly identified. The 01 directory is nearly empty with only a 00.0 "file". The 00 directory has several. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Should I be manually modifying the /modules.conf file? Oh, another thing, why does harddrake have an nVidia Corporation entry under "Other Devices"? I have a GeForce3 Ti-200, and the only thing listed under "Videocards" is generic VGA. Thanks for any help, Robby ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97
