[CS-FSLUG] No system sounds after update

[David Aikema]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:08:41 -0500, Alvin Smith <email at alvinsmith.com> wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 03:12 pm, Alvin Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> > > > Audio devices:
> > > > 0: Bt87x Digital
> > > > 1: ES1370 DAC2/ADC (DUPLEX)
> > >
> > > Your /dev/dsp was symlinked to /dev/dsp0, but the later output seems
> > > to suggest that your sound card is device one.  Perhaps you should try
> > > symlinking /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp1 instead.
> >
> > $ ls -l /dev/dsp
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 9 Nov 19 06:11 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp1
> >
> > Still no system sounds and still have error message.
> >
> > > I seem to recall seeing something like this with a webcam that had an
> > > attached microphone using /dev/dsp0.  Needed to spit the sound out
> > > /dev/dsp1 instead from what I recall.
> > >
> > > David
> 
> 
> Solved by switching the physical location of the sound card and the TV card on
> the pci bus!

If you're still interested in a software method to get this to work,
look at the files /etc/modules* ... these can be used, from what I
recall, to specify the order in which your modules are loaded.  I
think that I did something similar with a network card once or twice.

David