On or about 14 Jun 2001, peter.clark at tides.com is alleged to have said: > Except for the sound. (Isn't it always _something_?) On-board AC'97 > audio, works fine in Win98, Linux doesn't recognize it. So you got past the Win snafu you had at the beer meeting? Good man! > As far as I've > read, AC'97 is supported, so why doesn't it get detected? In BIOS, should > the "Sound Blaster" option be enabled? I've already enabled on-board audio, > and the settings work fine enough under Win98 (except no sound under > DOS--not a big deal), but I thought that there might be some problem with > that. Furthermore, how do I force Linux to recognize that there is indeed > sound. I skimmed the Sound-HOWTO last night, but (at least to my befuddled > brain) it just assumed that Linux would recognize the audio automatically. > However, when I try to play sounds, or set up a sound daemon, it tells me > that /dev/dsp doesn't exist. ls -l /dev/dsp confirms that the file is > there, so I assume that it just doesn't recognize the hardware. Are you trying to do this with alsa or just straight up? You might peek at Alsa and see if that makes it easier, if you're not already. I seem to recall that they do the AC'97.