Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] sound Date: Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 02:47:06PM -0500 In reply to:Kyle Johnson Quoting Kyle Johnson(kjohnson@usitc.gov):

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.

My sound card is a basic Acer AW32, with a Crystal sound chip (PnP), and it's listed among the supported cards in the OSS-Linux site (4Front). I understand that re-compiling the kernel is probably not necessary, and I'd like to postpone that adventure a bit if I can. Could someone give me some advice, or point me to some of the appropriate documents?

Kyle If you have the OSS software loaded, then the command "soundon" enable the OSS sound software. To test, find a .wav or .au file and do "play filename.au or .wav". The command to enable the OSS sound should be included in one of the init.d files. Disable OSS sound with "soundoff". OSS install puts executable files in /usr/lib/oss so you will have to put sym-links for the play and mplay executables into your path somewhare. I use /usr/local/bin. If you don't have the OSS software, use Yast to load the "wavplay" package. It has an executable called play that is used to play sounds. To enable sound for other them OSS software, you do have to compile sound into either your kernel or a module. HTH wayne

Thanks!

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