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On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to |
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write: |
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> On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> > > Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the |
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> > > wrong permissions? |
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> > Apparently it has the wrong permissions, or so says the message when I |
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> > start KDE,but if I reset them, next boot they are changed. Either |
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> > resetting permissions, or doing # udevstart allows me to use /dev/dsp as |
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> > user but changes don't survive a reboot. |
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> Hmm, /dev/dsp is only necessary for legacy OSS support...it should not |
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> be necessary with KDE, which _should_ be able to use the ALSA |
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> interface. Do you have the alsa USE flag set? |
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Hmm, no |
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IIRC, when I first installed on this box, I had to go with oss (nforce2 mobo |
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w/onboard sound). |
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> What are the permissions that it is being created with? (Do "ls -l |
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> /dev/dsp" from a console after startup without logging into KDE). |
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> > > Are you using a device tarball (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL in /etc/conf.d/rc)? |
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> > |
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> > Yes. |
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> I would suggest turning TARBALL off. It is almost certainly not needed |
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> today. |
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Turned it off. Let's see |
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> One possibility is that the device is comfing from the tarball, but |
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> not being recreated by udev for some reason. You can check this with: |
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> tar -tjvf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 |
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$ sudo tar -tjvf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 | grep dsp |
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crw------- root/audio 14,19 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp1 |
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crw------- root/audio 14,35 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp2 |
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crw------- root/audio 14,51 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp3 |
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> Also, what messages do you get on bootup between "Starting udevd" and |
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> "Mounting /dev/pts..." |
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Can't see Starting udevd is dmesg or kern.log.0 will try to catch it next boot |
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> Do you CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y or =m in your kernel configuration? |
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cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SND_PCM_OSS |
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CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y |
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Rebooting with these changes. I'll get back to you soon. Thanks again. |
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> -Richard |
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Rebooting with these changes. I'll get back to you soon. Thanks again. |
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Regards, Ernie |
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100% Microsoft and Intel free |
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08:07:29 up 8:26, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.69, 0.66 |
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