[plug] sound card

[Oliver White]

Oliver White wrote:

> 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. :/

Or rather I get the above error message.

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Oliver White