/dev/dsp/ is Missing!

d_GeNeRiT · 05-07-2004, 12:49 AM

I was getting white noise and hiccups on sound when playing Kolf or using Kaboodle.
SO I went DLed and installed the new alsa-driver version 1.0.4 also installed the utils, tools and Oss compatibility from the tar balls.

Now I keep getting the error message that "/dev/dsp" is missing and I have no sound at all. I would appreciate any help in getting my sound back. God, I hope I dont have to re-install mandrake 9.2 all over again. It would be the 5th time in 3 days.

Daem0hn · 05-07-2004, 02:51 AM

i had this problem, nobody here really helped :P but luckily i found teh answer to my problems (and hopefully yours)

try chmodding /dev/dsp with +rw--rw--rw-) permissions, +666 i THINK

hope it helps

tgagne · 05-24-2004, 03:26 PM

My /dev/dsp is missing as well. Did you ever figure out how it should be created?

LavaDevil94 · 05-24-2004, 03:33 PM

After running ./configure, make, and su -c make\ install (in the alsa-driver package), did you run ./snddevices? Even if you have DevFS (you do), you should run it.

tgagne · 05-24-2004, 04:02 PM

Nevermind. I just found the problem (just came back from rebooting). /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer were both there, but whatever modules necessary to make them live were not. I added modprobe snd-es1968 to my rc.local file and all is working now.