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From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: arts
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:48:20
Message-Id: 42CE6778.20304@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: arts by Tres Melton
1 Tres Melton wrote:
2
3 >On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >
7 >>I hope I'm not hijacking this thread ;-) but can anyone tell me
8 >>what creates /dev/dsp in the first place? On this newly reinstalled
9 >>Xfce4 system it doesn't exist, even though the kernel sound modules do
10 >>and have been loaded.
11 >>
12 >>
13 >
14 >I think that it is created by the deprecated devfs package. The newer
15 >udev package uses /dev/sound/dsp and make /dev/dsp a link to the newer
16 >one for compatibility but since you don't have one it may only create
17 >the link if the old device was there.
18 >
19 >
20
21 Hmm. /dev/sound/dsp doesn't exist either, but I find:
22
23 prh@wstn ~ $ ls -lL /dev/dsp?
24 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp1
25 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp2
26 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp3
27
28 Now I find I've somehow omitted alsasound from the default runlevel;
29 putting it in there and /etc/init.d/alsasound start gives /dev/dsp as a
30 link to /dev/sound/dsp. So I've answered my own question, but I hope
31 I've also exposed another little fact.
32
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34 Rgds
35 Peter Humphrey
36 Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: arts Alexey Maslennikov <alexey.maslennikov@×××××.com>