Re: soundcard woes

[Agustin Navarro <anavarro vip eniac com>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Patrick O'Neil wrote:

> OK...does anyone on the list have a creative/ensonique
> AudioPCI card and RH 5.2 (or at least kernel 2.0.36)
> and have a functional soundcard?
> 
> sndconfig detects it fine but it wont setup and work.
> When it tries to play the test sound, I get a message
> indicating that the /dev/audio doesn't support that 
> operation (ergo, /usr/bin/play).
> 
> Everything is updated to the latest official levels
> except my kernel which is at 2.0.36-1.  I do not want
> to upgrade to 2.2.0 until there are rpms available...
> besides which, since the official rh 5.2 supplies the
> rpms that I now have installed, they should all work
> with a rh 5.2 kernel and not REQUIRE the NEXT kernel.
> 

I believe that there was a patch applied to sound in kernel 2.0.36-3. The
updated rpm is in updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/kernel-2.0.36-3.i386.rpm 

It should be easy to try it anyway.

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