Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device
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Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device
Hello! When I try to play any sound through a program like xmms, I receive the following message:
** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device
I BELIEVE (but not sure) it is happening since I installed Dropline Gnome (I tried to install FreeRock Gnome first, but not even my firefox was working anymore because of problems in lib files, so I reinstalled my whole system and tried this one)
I tryed to use alsaconf and reconfigure my sound, but it didn't solve the problem.
I compiled my own kernel with not much knowleadge, but I could make audio working until yesterday. The main "system change" that I've made today was to install Dropline Gnome. I tried to run xmms as root, but didn't solve the problem.
Thanks to anyone who tries to help me.
Edit: Oh, btw, there IS a file in /dev/dsp linking to another file: /dev/sound/dsp. I tried to chmod 777 both of them and it also didn't work.
It's happened to myself countless times: Compile or install the kernel, things foul up.
I know I did it right...
Reconfig, doublecheck my sound settings, Duh! Forgot to enable the chipset in alsa, and had it set for some reason in oss.....
It happens. That why this is called "Golf", not "Cooking"
Hi,
I had similar issue with xmms, but was intermittent. Sometimes it work sometime I get this error message. Meanwhile I could play sound using mplayer and I could listen to streaming videos and audios on the internet.
Finally I fixed it by editing the output plugin.
Options----> Preferences--->Audio I/O plugins--->Output plugin
I changed it from OSS driver to ALSA output plugin. However after the change I could not edit the volume from xmms player .
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