[plug] sound card

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Fri Jun 2 00:27:06 WST 2000


Christian wrote:

> > > or
> > >
> > > cat /dev/sndstat
> >
> > narf:~# cat /dev/sndstat
> > cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
> >
> > *hurumph*
>
> Do you have this device file there?  I recently spent a lot of time
> getting my machine at uni running with it's sound card so I spent a lot
> of time playing with /dev/sndstat and my experience was that if you had
> *any* sort of sound stuff configured into your kernel at all then
> /dev/sndstat would at least tell you something.  Maybe it's worth
> (re-)creating the file?  You can probably just use '/sbin/MAKEDEV
> audio'.

The file exists, I try cat /dev/sndstat and nothing happens. :/

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Oliver White





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