Re: [gentoo-user] alsa and Intel HD audio

[Steve Evans]

On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:53, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 08 October 2006 15:44, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > Did as you suggested and removed alsa from the kernel and compiled
> > alsa-driver but It didn't work.  The only thing that changed was the name
> > of the chip it detected, same as yours.  I still only have Master with
> > alsamixer and no sound not even quitely  I'm using kernel 2.6.17-r8 and
> > the 1.0.13 versions of alsa
> >
> > Matt
>
> This might be part of the problem:
> When I try to play an mp3 with madplay I get the following error
> audio: /dev/dsp: no such file or directory
> Am I missing something from the kernel?
>
> Matt
>

I'm not sure what would cause that, udev should be creating the device. On my 
system /dev/dsp is a link to /dev/sound/dsp. Does that exist?

I assume that your user is in group audio, so that you have access rights 
to /dev/dsp?

Steve
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