On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted before on this list and have not been able to figure out
> what I must do. The story is as follows: I have a SBlive card and the OSS
> trial version detects and allows me to play sound, all is well.
> Apparently, the alsa-driver also supports the card. I got the drivers
> from the alsa-site and followed the instructions, viz.
> a. ran ./configure
> b. make install
> c. ran ./snddevices
> d. modprobe snd-card-emu10k1.o
>
> All was well till here and I got no error msgs. When I tried 'play
> sound.wav' I get
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device.
>
> An 'ls -lF /dev/dsp*' shows that there is a such a file.
>
> What am I missing? If I must give more information than the above, what
> must I include?
>
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
I've never tried the ALSA or OSS drivers, but have you looked at the Open Source
drivers from Creative themselves? You can download drivers for the SB Live!
cards (emu10k) from http://opensource.creative.com I've been useing those
drivers since the day I got my SB Live! and I've never had a problem.
--
- James Atkinson
'Today is an illusion, it is but an echo of yesterday and a shadow on tommorow'
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