Well, I guess this is a common enough problem but for now I'm damned if I can work my way around it.
A few months back I built myself a new m/c, twin processors, loads of disk and memory, even added a nice flat panel display. All went well and my local lan worked well under samba also. I decided yesterday to add in a sound card and picked up a Soundblaster 4.1 Digital. I expected a quick configuration and then sound. How wrong I was. Using sndconfig I can see the board but it refuses to configure. Using Control Centre the board is identified as ens 1371. Entirely reasonable I believe, but again no configuration. If I depmod -a then modprobe snd-ens1371 I get a situation where lsmod shows up all sorts of ens entries - but still no sound. Re-booting (I know, I know) gives me an error message 'device /dev/dsp can't be opened...' In fact that is no surprise as /dev/dsp doesn't exist. A search reveals that /lib/dev-state/sound/dsp does exist so I created a soft link and to be on the safe side re-booted. The same error as before 'device /dev/dsp can't be opened...' There are lots of references to these problems in various archives but no-one seems to come up with a step 1, step 2, step 3 answer, or in fact any sort of an answer. Are there any suggestions as to how to get this working? regards Daryl -- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were playing a friendly game of Frisbee at the Gates estate on the shore of Lake Washington. At one point, Bill accidentally sends the Frisbee over Steve's head, and the Frisbee lands in the lake. Steve walks out onto the surface of the lake and retrieves the Frisbee. The next day the newspapers report: Gates' Throw Exceeds Expectations Apple CEO Unable to Swim
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