Hello everyone, I, too, am getting the same error message upon trying to play any type of audio file - that no device exists at /dev/dsp

I am not as "Linux savvy" as gfrick; I have been running windows 98 SE for quite a while, and know most of the ways to manipulate drivers and such, but I'm brand new to linux, running knoppix 3.7 off of a bootable cd.

The spec's on my audio hardware and computer are:

Computer: Gateway Solo 2500 (laptop)

Audio hardware: Neomagic Magicwave 3dx Sound System

I've already attempted to find drivers (does linux use drivers the same way that windows does?), to no avail. I've also tried the ALSA (knoppix alsa) from the boot, as gfrick was instructed to do in this topic; during the boot-up sequence, it prints out that ALSA is detecting the soundcard (autodetect), but once KDE is up and running, I have an error message waiting for me, which says that no device exists at /dev/dsp, and the icon in the "taskbar" (may be called something diff. under linux) of the speaker has a big red circle with an "x" through it, covering the speaker icon.

I have also tried running sndconfig from the console, as well as running it from the knoppix configure menu - in both cases, I get the message: "No PnP or PCI sound cards were found in your system..."

I read that gfrick somehow figured out a way to fix this, by upgrading to "Test" - unfortunately, I have no idea what that means. So, if someone has any suggestions on what I might do to fix this problem, I'd greatly appreciate hearing them.

Thanks very much.