I am not familiar with the Alsa sound driver system, but I am guessing it
works like any other modular driver system, for e.g., PCMCIA.
Hopefully, this piece of advice will give you a few more options to pursue
before one of the Gurus answers your prayers.
As for my setup, I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 with ESS Maestro sound (the
module is simply named maestro.o). To enable sound on my set up I had to
compile the maestro.o module. That was easy enough.
What I am putting down here are notes from my experiences in getting sound
to work.
1) Check if the module for your audio controller is loaded by doing "lsmod"
as root.
If it isn't, I hope you know the name, then load it using modprobe
(refer
man pages).
2) Perhaps it's a matter of permissions. Check if sound works as root. You
might need to become part of the "audio" group. I had a matter involving
permissions on /dev/sndstat.
These are not expert recommendations, but my experience has been that if
you have read all the documentation, and done everything that made sense,
you probably missed out on a minor detail.
Do let me know if any of this helps, or if it doesn't :-).
-AS
Michael Dickey wrote:
>
> The audio controller is a Crystal CS4237B - covered under one of the
> options with alsaconf. When I try to start it with:
> # /etc/init.d/alsa start
>
> I get:
> Starting sound driver: snd-card-cs4236 failed
>
> I'm stuck!
>
> Michael
> ---- Anand Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hmmm... and what kind of sound card do you have?
> >
> > -AS
>
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