Re: Sound problem on Lenny PPC: can't find /dev/dsp
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 17:47:15 +1030, J.T. Chittleborough wrote:
> Hey, all.
>
> The sound abruptly stopped working on a Lenny KDE installation on my
> PowerBook G4 12"; I dual-boot with Mac OS X, which it's still working
> fine with. I'm running a stock Lenny PowerPC kernel, and can't find
> anything in the APT logs about software changes which might have
> affected this.
>
> At startup, pbbuttonsd complains that it can't find /dev/mixer, and aRts
> complains it can't find /dev/dsp (in both cases, ls -l can't find them
> either). Similarly, "amixer info" says it is unable to find any devices.
> Nothing in KInfoCenter, lspci or Apple's System Profiler seems to give
> any information on any sound hardware.
>
> I've tried a dpkg-reconfigure of aRts, reinstalling the arts and
> libasound2 packages, and installing alsa-tools, without success.
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
Try (as root):
modprobe snd_pcm_oss
If that works then you can add snd_pcm_oss to /etc/modules to make sure
that it is loaded at every boot.
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