The CD was Don McLean. I'm sure you can understand my pain.

[polar_eyez]

Hey out there. I'm a first-time Linux user. I've tried a couple of Live CDs in the past, but I decided the other day to install Debian (net install).

Anyway, on to the story. My sister is impatient and irritating, so she wanted to come on and listen to some music. I told her to pop a CD in, but alas, no sound.

I was told by vumeter to run esd. I did, and I got the following message:
/dev/dsp: no such device.
I tried dsps 1-3, and was presented with similar messages.

I tried to Google the problem, but every article I found seemed to assume that my sound card had been recognised during the installation.

Any help would be appreciated, even if it's just a link to a more helpful article.

[iwanabeguru]

have you installed alsa?
install alsa

terminal>apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils

and than configure alsa

terminal>alsaconf

and in the xmms you need to load the audio cd module if it isn't loaded
i don't know the name of the module but you will find it. Than open the cdrom device like a directory.

have fun!

[polar_eyez]

Okay, I took your advice. I kept getting an error saying "no module by that name found". Nothing doing, I'm afraid.
I'm using Kscd to play them at the moment. It seems to be doing it fine, but for the fact that I've no sound card...

[antidrugue]

If you have the Debian Sarge default kernel, which is a 2.4 one, then you need to install the alsa modules first:

apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

Then you can set up alsa dmix:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...leas-help.html

[polar_eyez]

Cheers. Haven't tried out dmix yet (my family's not huge on Linux), but it hasn't given me any problems or anything, and at least I have sound.
Thanks for your help