On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[...] so, when you reboot, what is the state of snd-pcm-oss? is it already loaded so that your modprobe is reloading it? or it is not loaded?
As far as I understand, it's not loaded: /dev/dsp is missing, and lsmod does not list any *oss modules.
[...] have you run alsaconf? all of this should be taken care of by running that. it sets up all the aliases so that the devices are created at boot.
I hadn't - I wasn't aware I was supposed to. I've done so now, removing my /etc/modprobe.d/oss-emulation first in case it got in the way. I then rebooted, and the situation seems exactly the same: no /dev/dsp, no *oss modules loaded, flite breaks horribly.
Is all this documented? - I notice I probably should have known about alsaconf, but din't.
Cheers, Nikhil.