Sound not working

[Neobuddha8672]

I recently installed coreplus on my compaq armada m700 and have been quite impressed. But then I tried to use some sound applications and got no sound. I have loaded alsa, alsa-config, and alsamixergui. When I try to run one of these I get "snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory". In the cli I typed "cat /prof/a sound/cards" and got "no soundcards". So I tried "lspci -v | grep-I audio" and got "00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)"

[Juanito]

You could reboot and load alsa-config first and then alsa and see if this helps.

You can also use "aplay -l" to list any sound cards discovered by alsa.

[curaga]

I wonder if the module didn't load? (snd-es1968)

Check dmesg, and maybe try to modprobe it manually.

[Juanito]

'could be - that sort of message also appears if you load alsa-config after alsa and then run alsasound start.

(since tc-5.x and with most modern hardware, it is not usually necessary to run alsasound start)