Cant get sound to work. Please help

[bud1979]

Upon loading kde i get an error: device /dev/dsp can not be opened. No such file or directory. I looked under the /dev dir and it is not there. How do i get one in there for sound. I recompiled the kernel so i could have sound on the AC97 sound. Please help. Thanks

[flying_walus]

assuming you've got devfs running, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer would be created automatically at boot... if such devices were found.

This probibally means you need to properly configure your kernel to run the devices:

(brief cavaet: this is for oss modules, if you want alsa you'll have to find someone who uses it to help you

1. figure out what sound card you've got
2. compile it's support into the kernel
3. if you compiled it as a module, add it to /etc/modules.autoload
4. reboot, or, if you used a module, modprobe [module name]

this _should_ create the correct entry in /dev (again, assuming you're using devfs). It will be owned by root:audio with permissions of 660. add your user accout to the audio group, and you should have sound.