Thank You!!  I did see the link on occasion! It just never seems to have
hung around when I wanted it!

pete


mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:59:04PM -0700, mazdaracer wrote:
> > I too have it dual booted on my laptop and it's ok there. I'm using
> > Mandrake 8.1. In fact, I just tried to go over to KDE (works ok)
> then
> > back to Ice and it didn't 'fix itself' like it sometimes does.
> >
> > I use the OSS Driver 1.2.5 [libOSS.so] pointing to /dev/dsp as the
> > alternate device; switching to default and trying to play gives me
> the 3
> > points of why I can't open the sound. I've got a SB Live audio card.
> >
> > This is interesting:
> > [pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/dsp
> > ls: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
> > [pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/d*
> > /dev/discs:
> > total 0
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           30 Dec 31  1969 disc0 ->
> > ../ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/
> >
> > /dev/dri:
> > total 0
> > crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     226,   0 Jun  1 19:56 card0
> > [pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/sound
> > total 0
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   4 May 24 19:28 audio
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   3 May 24 19:28 dsp
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,  19 May 24 19:28 dsp1
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   5 May 24 19:28 dspW
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   2 May 24 19:28 midi
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,  18 May 24 19:28 midi1
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   0 May 24 19:28 mixer
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   1 May 24 19:28 sequencer
> > crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   8 May 24 19:28 sequencer2
> > [pete@rotor pete]$
> >
> >
> > There should be a /dev/dsp entry but clearly none exist. I changed
> the
> > sound to point to /dev/sound/dsp and now it's ok.    This is kind of
> > strange!
> 
> Looks like you're using the new and advanced DevFS. It's an
> alternative to
> the original flat dev filesystem -- doesn't waste any disk space or
> inodes
> on your drive, and device entries are registered and unregistered as
> modules
> are loaded/unloaded. Check your /etc/devfsd.conf to make sure that
> MKOLDCOMPAT is enabled -- normally the devfsd daemon will make
> symlinks to
> the old device names (eg: /dev/sound/dsp -> /dev/dsp). More than
> helpful
> documentation on devfsd and devfs is available via:
>               less
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README
>               man devfsd
>               man devfsd.conf
> 
> --
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
> mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org
> http://tank.webhop.org
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