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Old 12-31-2005, 04:04 PM   #1
worldgnat
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/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?

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Old 01-01-2006, 09:03 AM   #2
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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?

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-Peter
you probably need to create it with mknod, if you did that you probably also have to chmod to set the proper permissions.
 
Old 01-02-2006, 02:12 PM   #3
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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.

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