On Sunday 29 August 2021 08:21:11 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 12:18:46PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 04:55:46AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But if I try to unmute the audio, I get a steady stream of can't > > > open /dev/dsp so I'm still missing an audio codec I think. > > > > Can't-open-permission-denied or > > can't-open-no-such-file-or-directory? > > You're absolutely correct that Gene should try to get in the habit > of including *useful* information in his help requests. This includes > exact error messages. > > In this case, we can probably guess that he's missing the OSS > emulation layer. He's probably running something so incredibly old > that it *actually* still tries to use OSS -- thus the attempts to open > /dev/dsp. > > unicorn:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp > ls: cannot access '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory > > To solve that, he might try installing this guy: > > unicorn:~$ apt-cache search alsa dsp > alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications > [...]
That wasn't the magic twanger Greg. from the terminal kino was launched in: ALSA lib pcm.c:2495:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /dev/dsp Could not open ALSA device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory thousands of them. Camera speaker is alive though. Thanks Greg. > I can't claim any personal experience with it, though. I don't know > what steps are required beyond installing the package. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
