[wplug] sound card whoas

[Brian S. Woolstrum]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, 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.
>
> Hoss
>
>


By default Slackware doesn't allow normal users to talk to
the soundcard.  So, if you're not running as root (which of
course you shouldn't be) you can't access the soundcard until you
have root do a "chmod a+rw /dev/mixer /dev/dsp"

In addition, you probably won't have the modules loaded.
You can check by doing an "/sbin/lsmod". The modules you
want to look for are "es1370","ac97_codec", and
"soundcore".  You can uncomment the appropriate
lines in "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules"




Brian S. Woolstrum