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Re: More Newbie Questions....



"Knapp, Robert (CAP, CMC)" wrote:

>         1) I tried to get xmms working, and it needed my audio device
> path.  The default is /dev/dsp which fails (more /dev/dsp returns no device
> available), the only other device I could see that made sense was /dev/audio
> which also returned a no device available.  Does anyone know what the audio
> device on a Performa 6400 is? Do I need to mknod a place for it?

/dev/dsp is right. You probably just need to load the dmasound module. To
automate this, put the line

alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_awacs

in /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules as root.


Michel


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and The DRI Project



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