Literally LOST /dev/sound/dsp

Daem0hn · 04-13-2004, 10:07 AM

i have literally lost /dev/sound/dsp

it has just - disappeared

the last thing i recall doing is emerging alsa, however sound was working after then
i have also managed to get gdesklets working, this is when i first noticed the problem, when i was testing the corner xmms player gdesklet

i have tried lsof to see if anything is using /dev/sound/dsp
also tried running xmms in fluxbox, gnome, kde, and some other wm i happen to have to see if it was a wm based process that was hogging the sound file

it was then i decided to run xmms in terminal

instead of seeing, /dev/dound/dsp device or resource busy

i see

Code:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory

then i started eeping and crying like a little girl, well not literally, but i was very confused

so i did

Code:

# updatedb

# locate */dsp

hoping that it woudl just have moved location or something - which evidently it hadnt

is there anyway that i can recreate the file, or re-emerge drivers that would reinstate the file in its right directory???

please help, i have a scrim for enemyterritory in a few days and i need sound to play it

thanks in advace

hw-tph · 04-13-2004, 05:11 PM

So is the Alsa driver loaded? With devfs and Alsa the device will not exist until the driver is loaded. Run /etc/init.d/alsasound restart and watch the output carefully for any error messages. If all goes well, tell it to launch alsasound for the "default" runlevel: rc-update add alsasound default should do it.

Håkan

Daem0hn · 04-13-2004, 08:49 PM

i seem to have fixed it, somehow the /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/dsp had permissions of 000 set to them. a member of neowin pointed out to me that it might be a permissions problem, which it was, lol, so nobody culd see them

PolarLacis · 01-15-2005, 02:53 PM

sorry for bringing old posts up, but how exactly set those permisions right???

i have the same error when i try to play mp3s in xmms

Code:

oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

searched /dev and there is no dsp

the funny thing is i hear the system sounds and i can playback mp3s in JuK

Slackware 10.0
Kernel 2.6.10
Sound card SB PCI128

lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia               3462908  -
ipv6                  228064  -
ehci_hcd               27120  -
usbcore               103672  -
parport_pc             24676  -
parport                31816  -
8250_pnp                7756  -
8250                   19876  -
serial_core            17900  -
via_agp                 7276  -
8139too                21548  -
mii                     3820  -
snd_ens1371            18244  -
snd_rawmidi            18912  -
snd_seq_device          6648  -
snd_ac97_codec         73024  -
snd_pcm                82472  -
snd_timer              19824  -
snd                    44452  -
soundcore               6592  -
snd_page_alloc          7376  -
evdev                   7232  -
ide_scsi               13552  -
agpgart                28072  -

hw-tph · 01-15-2005, 06:48 PM

PolarLacis, you don't seem to have OSS emulation installed or at least not loaded. Build Alsa with OSS emulation and then use alsaconf (from the alsa-utils package) to configure your soundcard.

Håkan

PolarLacis · 01-16-2005, 05:36 AM

is there anything with what i can make sure OSS emulation is just not loaded?