I'm no hardware expert, but maybe one of these points will help:
As far as the OSS irq problem: check that plug and play enabled in your bios so that linux can handle the irq allocation. beyond that, i don't know.
Sndconfig is not installed by default on RH8.0+. You should be able to find it on installation disk 3, in the RPM's folder.
Finally, check the /dev directory to see if dsp even exists. There's been at least one occasion where i've had to manually add a symlink to dsp0.
ln -s dsp dsp0
good luck, dan
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Rory Walsh wrote:
This one goes out to the the redhat users out there! I have installed redhat 8.0 on my laptop and everything ran very smoothly, everything runs, except the sound(which is the only reason I installed it in the first place!). Basically whenever I log into a session I get an error saying, /dev/dsp/ no such device...., the soundcard I have is just a simple Via Tech AC97, I would have thought that is was a standard enough generic sound card? I tried to install OSS but that failed, giving these results,
your currently detected hardware combination works with the base OSS software so you don't need to select any additional drivers when ordering the permanent OSS license.
Warning: Some of the devices failed to initialize. See /usr/lib/oss/soundon.log for more info.
Some common system setup errors were detected: 1: PCI interrupt not allocated by BIOS
Please look at /usr/lib/oss/errors.log for troubleshooting instructions.
Another thing, I have not used Linux since I was in university and I seem to remember tools like SndConfig where I could config my audio? Things like this seem to be mising from this distribution. I also looked at ALSA but it appears that I need the src for my linux distro, I don't have this either.
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