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As far as I remember, /dev/dsp is only used with OSS. |
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In case you use ALSA, it is created by OSS emulation. Possibly OSS emulation |
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modules are not loaded. Module names are something like snd_*_oss. |
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P.S. I can be very wrong about it. |
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On Friday 08 July 2005 14:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Tres Melton wrote: |
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> >On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> >>I hope I'm not hijacking this thread ;-) but can anyone tell me |
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> >>what creates /dev/dsp in the first place? On this newly reinstalled |
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> >>Xfce4 system it doesn't exist, even though the kernel sound modules do |
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> >>and have been loaded. |
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> > |
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> >I think that it is created by the deprecated devfs package. The newer |
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> >udev package uses /dev/sound/dsp and make /dev/dsp a link to the newer |
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> >one for compatibility but since you don't have one it may only create |
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> >the link if the old device was there. |
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> Hmm. /dev/sound/dsp doesn't exist either, but I find: |
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> prh@wstn ~ $ ls -lL /dev/dsp? |
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> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp1 |
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> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp2 |
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> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Mar 4 13:40 /dev/dsp3 |
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> Now I find I've somehow omitted alsasound from the default runlevel; |
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> putting it in there and /etc/init.d/alsasound start gives /dev/dsp as a |
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> link to /dev/sound/dsp. So I've answered my own question, but I hope |
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> I've also exposed another little fact. |
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> -- |
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> Rgds |
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> Peter Humphrey |
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> Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. |
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Alexey Maslennikov |
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Oracle DBA and developer |
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*NIX system administrator |
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