[Arun Sreelalan]

PROBLEM CONFIGURING SOUND CARD --

Hello, I'm Arun. I've created this mail account specially for Linux-concerned
mail. I'm a
complete newbie to Linux, so, of course, Ive got the hardware configuring blues.

I've got a ISA/PnP Yamaha OPL3 SA3 sound card. I'm using Red Hat 8.0. The first
time I ran it, it
detected my card and said that it had installed the necessary driver. But - no
sound. When I
start my GUI (KDE), I get an error saying "Error While initializing the sound
driver. Device /dev/dsp cannt be opened(No such device). The sound server will
continue using the null output device." Also when I shutdown the machine, in the
shutdown checkpoints, the saving of mixer settings FAILs (obviously because
there is no sound driver).

How do I configure my sound card? Please help. I searched on the net and found
out that the card actually is supported, but to get it to work, you have to
mess around with the files in the /dev folder. Have to uncomment out many lines
from a certain device driver file. I dont Know enough, so please help me out.



Arun Sreelalan
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