/dev/dsp Doesn't exist
 

Ok, I have an ati ixp sound card, (atleast it runs under snd_atiixp) and after an entire two days of trying to fix the card I realised that my PCM was muted. The problem is this: aumix won't find a device, and when I tried cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp I got a file not found. Then I tried cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sound/dsp. Again, file not found. At this point I realised somethig was wrong ;). I cd'ed to /dev/sound, and the directory doesn't even exist (I do have /dev though, fortunately). Any ideas? I think that's why aumix can't find my card. by the way, /proc/asound/cards shows my card. Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Peter

you probably need to create it with mknod, if you did that you probably also have to chmod to set the proper permissions.

Any ideas on how to use mknod and create it? I tried something like mknod -c /dev/sound/dsp and got an error. The man page isn't very helpful either.

Thanks,
-Peter