Re: 2.6 and /dev/dsp

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 9:58 am, Marcelo Ramos wrote:
>Matthias Leopold wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i compiled 2.6.1 on my testing system from the sources from kernel.org.
>> seems to work so far (alsa sound module is loaded fine) but there are
>> (not unexpectedly) some issues with devices. i compiled devfs support
>> into the kernel and started devfsd (like in 2.4.x). result: no /dev/dsp.
>> next try was rebooting without starting devfsd, result: ls /dev/dsp
>> works, artsd and xmms can't find it anyway. i use debians
>> module-init-tools, of course, so there is a /etc/modprobe.devfs. i tried
>> it with the default version of /etc/modprobe.conf and with one generated
>> by generate-modprobe.conf, no difference. anyone knows what went wrong?
>
>I had the same problem you have and solved it compiling the kernel with
>"OSS emulation".
>
>
>Regards.
>
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I had the same problem. Apt-get install alsa-utils fixed it.

Jeff Elkins