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From: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu>
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Subject: Re: no /dev/dsp.x
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On Friday 28 November 2003 10:19 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>
> You can't force the driver to detect your soundcard if the driver
> doesn't detect it :-)
>
> If you have a supported sound card and are loading the correct driver,
> then the device will be probed when you load the driver (at boot,
> after boot, whenever), and the device node will be created at that
> time if the probe is successful.
>
> > I suppose on the 5.2-BETA laptop I should see something similar?
>
> You should, yes.
>
> Kris

Thanks,

I'll check the dmesg on the laptop tomorrow and see what it contains.

Is it likely that a soundcard recognized by 4.7 - 4.9 kernel wonouldn't be 
recognized by 5.2-Beta?

Tim