No sound device

idella4 · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: No sound device

I have a very new gentoo that has simply stopped making the sound device /dev/dsp during boot. The first thing to appear in kde is the error message stating that arts has no /dev/dsp.

How and why and how to fix it?
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Dorsai! · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

as far as I know, /dev/dsp is the oss legacy device. maybe you did something wrong in your kernel config. Deactivated ALSA OSS support or something like that.

jcat · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1337

/dev/dsp can still be created by enabling OSS emulation for computability even if you're using ALSA, which you should definitely be doing! Most people these days recommend ASLA.

Cheers,
jcat

idella4 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:26 am Post subject:

ok thanks, I'll look at the config.
Having looked at the config, I've turned on a few things that need be on, but still no sound device.
If /dev/dsp is created by oss emulation, where is it exactly.
I found oss, but not oss emulation.

And if not /dev/dsp, what should a sound device be called?
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jcat · Veteran Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1337

I beleive OSS emulation is under the ALSA section of the .config

Cheers,
jcat

idella4 · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:59 am Post subject:

ok thanks
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