/dev/sound problems

[jtmace]

OK.. This is not fun anymore.. I have searched every possible information source i have availiible.

I am having troubles with getting sound up and running on my Gentoo box. I have taken every possible route.

After messing with ALSA (and coming to the realization that i'll never use it) I decided to load sound support into my kernel. I loaded the intel 810 audo driver to be loaded as a module. When rebooted with the new kernel i have 2 entrys in my /lib/modules/2*/kernel/drivers/sound directory, ac97_codec.o and i810_audio.o. The i810 modules fails to load. The ac97_codec modules loads up fine.

Finally I think my sound problems are at an end.... Until tryingn to cat a wav file to /dev/dsp. I am using a kernel with devfsd support, but there is no /dev/dsp. This is not the problem of the /dev/dsp symlink not being created becuase there is nothing in /dev/sound/ or /dev/snd..

If anyone has had a problem like this can you point me in the right direction? I would really hate to have to swap back over to RedHat just because of a pesky sound problem.

Thanks in advance.
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[delta407]

Why? Why must you double-post? Isn't one enough? Read the guidelines, please.

Locking thread in favor of this one.
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