Re: creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

[Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>]

ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem.

There's a sound faq for debian
   http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ
which advises installing the package oss_compat.

I did
   sudo apt-get install oss_compat
and it created /dev/dsp, and snd and gnusound now
make a sound.

Sorry for the false alarm.

(Although --- when i did the installation, i got this error
message: "FATAL: Module snd_seq_oss not found."
Nevertheless, the return status of the apt-get command
was 0, the /dev/dsp device was created, and i can
now hear sound from those two programs i couldn't
hear from before.  All this just for reference in case
somebody stumbles across this post.)

dan


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying out different sound editors on debian 6.0.4 ("squeeze").
>
> Some of them work fine right out of the box (mhwaveedit
> and kwave) and some won't play sound (gnusound and snd).
>
> (So no matter what, i know that hardware shouldn't be an
> issue since i can play sound from some software without
> any issues.)
>
> All of these come from
>    sudo apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME
>
> I believe that gnusound and snd fail because they are
> trying to use /dev/dsp, which does not exist on my system.
>
> Now . . . it seems like /dev/dsp would or should be created
> for any package which needs it --- so i think i should file
> a bug about this (but not sure exactly where).
>
> But maybe not, maybe there is some standard step
> i should be taking to guarantee that /dev/dsp gets created.
>
> If so, what would that step be?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help (and obviously i'm quite
> a neophyte here, so i appreciate any suggestions).
>
> dan