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
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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org
http://tank.webhop.org
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