Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:37:00
Message-Id: 42DAB280.2050505@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again by "E. Pereira"
1 E. Pereira wrote:
2 > As I told before my system gives me
3 >
4 >>WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device
5 >>(/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory
6 >
7 > when I try to play audio.
8 > So I took a peek in my system and discovered, while
9 > trying to install alsa-driver, that ALSA is already
10 > compiled into my kernel. So what should I do?
11 >
12 > Thanks for any possible help,
13 > e.pereira
14 >
15
16 Well, /dev/sound belongs to the deprecated oss api so you need to enable oss emulation:
17
18 mkdir /etc/portage
19 echo "media-sound/alsa-driver oss" >> /etc/portage/package.use
20 emerge -av alsa-driver
21 /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
22
23 Zac
24 --
25 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list