No /dev/dsp found

Lokheed · 10-09-2004, 01:55 PM

I have searched around but cant find anything on my problem and dont know where to start in fixing it.

I dont have dsp in /dev/ or in /dev/sound...but I can play audio through XMMS and Mplayer. Mplayer actually gives me this warning:

Code:

audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/sound/dsp: No such file or directory
alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default

So is this telling me that my alsa is setup but my actual sound isnt? I am confused as to why I dont have a dsp file anywhere on my system.

Running Gentoo with KDE. Even amixer setups fine but I dont have sound in flash and think this is the culprit.

Any help would be awesome cause I would love to get sound in flash and fix this dsp problem.

Thanks.

utopicdog · 10-09-2004, 02:39 PM

in the alsa distribution there is a script that makes any missing devices, its called snddevices, but in fact it makes a link to /dev/dsp0, which is a character device with major 14 and minor 3 on my system, see "man mknod" and the file "devices.txt" in the kernel documentation for more details.

Lokheed · 10-09-2004, 09:24 PM

Thanks for pointing me in the right spot. I read devices.txt and found that dsp is digital audio, which I had not compiled support in my kernel for.

Recompiled my kernel, rebooted, and voila. DSP is there and Mplayer loads perfectly...awesome.

Thanks so much