/dev/dsp ??
 

I am trying to configure soung on a system with NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV I have downloaded the oss drivers and instaled and while in KDE I get the following error while trying to change the I/O to the OSS


device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory) and i am in as root ??


Please advise.

hello,
does the device file exist? you cna check by doing a ls -l /dev/dsp in a terminal window. if not you can create it like this as user root
cd /dev
mknod dsp c 14 3
this creates a node for a charator device with major/minor numbers of 14, 3 which is what my dsp device is.

Run command ls -l /dev/dsp and see if the device file exists.

I need to work on my typing speed! I'm blazingly slow! :D

dev/dsp was not there so I
mknod dsp c 14 3

now what ??

hello,
i am gussing you will need to reinstall the sound drivers again since it did not finish the first time. - if the modules are already compiled and installed you could try just inserting them -i.e. modprobe oss_module