I have about 8 weeks of linux experience under my belt, and I'm about ready to tackle the job of activating sound under my SuSE 5.1 distribution. In general, how does one do this? A couple of applications (including Tkdesk) emit a message that "/dev/sound is not recognized". How do I activate it, or load the sound module? There _is_ such a file in the /dev directory.

vb@kanguruh:/pub/win32 > locate howto |grep Sound /usr/doc/howto/html/mini/Gravis-Ultra-Sound /usr/doc/howto/html/mini/Soundblaster-16 /usr/doc/howto/html/mini/Soundblaster-AWE ... /usr/doc/howto/html/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html ... /usr/doc/howto/html/Sound-HOWTO.html ... /usr/doc/howto/html/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.html /usr/doc/howto/mini/Gravis-Ultra-Sound.gz /usr/doc/howto/mini/Soundblaster-16.gz /usr/doc/howto/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.gz /usr/doc/howto/Sound-HOWTO.gz /usr/doc/howto/Sound-Playing-HOWTO.gz VB. -- <A HREF="mailto:vb@ebis.de">mailto:vb@ebis.de</A> ebis Informationssysteme Dachsweg 13, 88339 Bad Waldsee, Germany Phone +49-7524-93421 Fax +49-7524-93423 *** File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N) -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e