Re: /dev/dsp missing

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 03:46, Benjamí Villoslada wrote:
> /dev/dsp is missing in my Debian Sid --I've used it one week ago with XMMS.
>
> I've tried a oss-compat reinstallation, and have /dev/dsp again.  But
> disappears with the system reboot.
>
> I've run alsaconf again.   ALSA works fine.
>
> Any idea? Thanks :)
>
> Installed packages:
>
> $ dpkg -l "*oss*" | grep ^i | awk '{print $2, $3}'
> oss-compat 0.0.4
>
> $ dpkg -l "*alsa*" | grep ^i | awk '{print $2, $3}'
> alsa-base 1.0.13-3
> alsa-firmware-loaders 1.0.13-1
> alsa-tools 1.0.13-1
> alsa-utils 1.0.13-1
> alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9
> libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-7
>
> Kernel:
> $ uname -a
> Linux itaca 2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Dec 10 19:37:06 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Regards,

It's worth checking if the alsa-oss package is available on synaptic, and 
installing it if so.

Strange that Xmms was working ok. Perhaps apt-get updates for Sid have removed 
the alsa-oss package for some reason.

Nigel.