KDE & /dev/dsp

[Hannes Mayer]

Hi all!

I've got a problem with sound...
When I installed FC2test2 a few days ago, I didn't have any soundcard
in my test-box. Now I put some sound-card into it and sound doesn't work:

# lspci
[...]
00:12.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)

# ls -al /dev/dsp*
crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /dev/dsp0
crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp1
crw------- 1 root root /dev/dsp56k

Doesn't look that bad to me so far, but everytime I start KDE (also as root)
I get a requester, that /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)

"Soundcard Detection" in KDE correctly detects the card, but playing
the test-sound fails (I don't hear anything - no error message).
When I start "KMix", the mixer dropdown is empty.

I'm clueless ... I'm working on RedHat servers for 3 years now, but this
is my first time with sound ;-)

Thanks in advance for any hints!!!

Cheers,
Hannes.