Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > google tells me mandrake 9.1 has alsa as default sound system. [snip] > lsmod (as root) is your friend here. and if alsa is running, you will > find a /proc/asound directory. OK, that directory's not there. lsmod tells me: Module Size Used by Not tainted isofs 27988 1 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean) udf 90464 0 (autoclean) sg 34636 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 4408 0 (autoclean) zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [isofs ppp_deflate] zlib_deflate 21144 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] bsd_comp 5336 0 (autoclean) ide-cd 33856 2 (autoclean) parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean) lp 8096 0 (autoclean) parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] es1371 29000 2 soundcore 6276 0 [es1371] ac97_codec 12488 0 [es1371] gameport 3316 0 [es1371] nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean) ppp_async 9216 1 ppp_generic 24060 3 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 6564 1 [ppp_generic] af_packet 14952 0 (autoclean) floppy 55132 0 tulip 44032 0 (autoclean) (unused) supermount 15296 3 (autoclean) sr_mod 16920 0 cdrom 31648 0 [ide-cd sr_mod] scsimon 9280 0 (unused) usb-storage 72952 0 scsi_mod 103284 4 [sg sr_mod scsimon usb-storage] usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused) usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci] rtc 8060 0 (autoclean) ext3 59916 3 jbd 38972 3 [ext3] ...which suggests to me that I'm not running alsa. Might something that I'd installed have removed it? urpmi alsa tells me Everything already installed which makes me think that I just have to turn it on somehow.
