Re: Re: help sound blaster

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:57:10PM -0500, Luis Rossi wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob McClure Jr" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 9:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sound] Re: help sound blaster
> 
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:41:09AM -0500, Luis Rossi wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bill Nottingham" <[email protected]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:34 PM
> > > Subject: [Sound] Re: help sound blaster
> > >
> > >
> > > > Luis Rossi ([email protected]) said:
> > > > > The operating sistem doesn't recognize my sound card. I have a sound
> > > > > blaster 16 isa (CT2230), the card has the plug & play technology but
> > > > > the sistem still doesn't recognize any sound card. How can i install
> > > > > my sound card.
> > > >
> > > > What does /proc/isapnp say?
> > > >
> > > > Bill
> > >
> > > I tried to find that archive but it seems that i don't have it.
> > > please don't get mad with me it's just that i'm new to this.
> >
> > What the captain means to say is for you to run
> >
> >   cat /proc/isapnp
> >
> > and report what it says.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> > [email protected]  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
> > Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.
> 
> Like i said before. It seems like i don't have that program or file or what
> ever. I'm sorry but I'm suposed to have that?
> 
> it could be posible that in the installation progress it didn't have copied?
> 
> how can i install that program?

Hmm.  I sense a breakdown in communication.  You must have "cat".  You
must have a /proc/isapnp.  "cat" is a program you execute from a
command line.  You get that by executing a "terminal" or "console"
program, or what we fondly call an "xterm".  It pops up a new window
with a prompt on the screen that will have some amount of information
followed by a "$" prompt.  Mine, for, instance, says

 yak:bob(L3) ~ [1021] $

The most basic will be something like

 bash 2.05 $

At that prompt, type

 cat /proc/isapnp

"cat" actually means "concantenate" and is a tool to concatenate
several files (or other sources) one after another and put them on the
screen.  This is the degenerate (and most often used) case of a single
file or source.

/proc/isapnp is not a real file, but is a "pseudo file" that is really
a "hook" or a "viewport" into the kernel.  If you get a directory
listing of it:

 ls -l /proc/isapnp

you get

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 12 20:17 /proc/isapnp

indicating it is a 0-length file.  But if you "cat" it, you get a
bunch of information.  Let us know what it is.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
[email protected]  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.