Miles Crawford wrote: > At first, I could get a few apps to make sound (Gaim and XMMS once I > installed the alsa output mod for it) but most programs told me I had no > output device. > > Well, I checked it out, and found that there was no /dev/dsp present. > Since the /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c is equivalent i tried: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mcrawfor $ ln -s /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c /dev/dsp
These files are _not_ equivalent. Don't do this. > ... > So my current hack to get this thing to work is a line at the botton of my > alsasound init script that just says: > > touch /dev/dsp > > Which spontaneously creates the /dev/dsp in a working fashion. Any ideas > why this crazy thing is happening? This is devfs autoloading, which is controlled by the following lines: > # Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use > # autoloading > LOOKUP .* MODLOAD > ... > LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD When /dev/dsp is accessed, devfs automatically loads snd-pcm-oss. Why this only happens if you try to write to /dev/dsp, and not when some programs tries to open it normally, I don't know. Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
