The controller is actually one of the supported VIA chipsets (VT8233) and the ac97 driver loads on boot (Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 13:48 Feb 5 2003), but devfs doesn't create the device files (I realize they are to be placed in /dev/sound. I tried using 'mknod' to manually create the drivers:
mknod mixer c 14 0
mknod sequencer c 14 1
mknod dsp c 14 3
mknod audio c 14 4
mknod sndstat c 14 6
but no luck. esd -d /dev/sound/dsp reports:
- using device /dev/sound/dsp
/dev/sound/dsp: No such device
The same happens if I do the mknod in /dev. Any ideas?

verigoth

Not really help for /dev ...
I had troubles when I tried to run the /dev/
as a filesystem ...

Taking that out of the kernel again it was all good.
Of course I don't know whether this applies in your case ;)

Cheers,
Tink

It seems others are having this same problem as well, and I did realize that it has nothing to do with devfs (lilo: Linux devfs=nomount provides the same situation). Here is the other thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=44153

I'm going to see what happens with both the Via and AC97 audio drivers built into the kernel...If it works, I'll let whoever cares know

verigoth