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Re: /dev/dsp: No such device



On Thursday 20 June 2002 15:11, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems with sound in woody (see "ensoniq 5880 kernel
> support" trhead). In order to test the sound I typed "esd" at the
> command promp as root, to start the  Enlightened Sound Daemon, wich
> produces a small sound in scale. I got the message:
>
> nostromo:/dev# esd
> /dev/dsp: No such device
>
> but dev/dsp *does* exist in my system (together with dsp1, dsp2
> dsp3)! What is going wrong?

"No such device" normally means that the driver responsible for handling 
the device isn't loaded properly. Are you able to play sound from other 
applications?

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