[wplug] sound card whoas

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Monday 17 February 2003 21:05, Hoss wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I just installed Slackware 8.1 on my computer, and I can't get my
> sound card to work no matter what I try. Whenever I start xwindows
> (dropline gnome 2.20) it just says cannot open device /dev/mixer. The
> sound card I'm trying to use is a Creative Audio PCI ES1370 SB PCI
> 64/128. Anyone have anything they'd recommend trying? I'm relatively
> new to linux in general, but in my prior usage (mandrake) it worked
> after the install, so I didn't really have to do anything specific to
> get it working, that's why I'm stumped. I've searched google, but
> couldn't find any info that was that good. Thanks for any help.

Ideas:

[0] Permissions on the device / group membership of user trying to use 
audio. What does ls -l /dev/mixer show?
[1] Device doesn't even exist, thus you need to download the ALSA 
drivers and give them a shot.

Check your modules (/sbin/lsmod), are the sound modules loaded? If not, 
you definitively go for [1].

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