I discovered that my sound card was invisible to the kernel because I had failed to enable ISA plug and play. After I did that, the alsa process started. One member of this list reminded me I needed to make the devices to initialize alsa so it was a case of not reading the documentation plus a misconfigured kernel. It looks like /dev/dsp exists once again, but I need to run that script to get a mixer back. Sorry for the extra messages. Martin McCormick Martin McCormick writes: > I just installed the Linux-2.6.5 kernel on a system and am in >the process of installing it on another very similar, but not >identical system. > > I see that everything is going toward ALSA and away from what >is called the open sound system. If I can make ALSA work, that's >fine, but I have a couple of questions. > > Does ALSA support the /dev/dsp 8-bit device? I have been >using it for quick and dirty sound applications for a couple of years >and it is extremely quick and easy to use as long as one's systems is >working properly. The audio is fine for voice and, at a sample rate >of 8,000 samples per second, it doesn't eat up too much disk space >compared with stereo CD PCM at 44.1 16-bit samples per second. > > There is also a /dev/audio device that will decode Mu-law >encoded audio such as is found on ISDN and other digital telephone >networks. > > I would hate to see all those devices go away. Since the ALSA >isn't working yet on my home P.C, I can't tell whether it supports >these lower-bandwidth devices or not. Right now, it just tells me it >is unable to run so no audio devices exist. > > On my work P.C., I installed the 2.6.5 kernel and selected the >open sound system and not ALSA and the /dev/dsp device came right up >and is producing normal sound. > >Martin McCormick > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list