/dsp gone!
I recently have been messing around with my memory in my PC, I finally got that straight and upgraded... Now my problem is that when I started (startx) in root, I got an Error that said:
[AO OSS] audio_setup: can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory. what do you think has happened?.. it can't be the memory, because even before I upgraded it has been doing this. (If there is an exact thread dealing with this problem, please direct me.)(maybe I overlooked it) |
Have you checked for the existence of the file using ls /dev/dsp? Here is the result on my box:
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crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-10-17 18:47 /dev/dsp |
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ls: cannot access /dev/dsp: No such file or directory |
Sounds like you need to modprobe alsa-oss
Did you recompile your kernel after mem upgrade? |
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Maybe run alsaconf as root ?
Why do you startx as root and not as regular user ? What is your X session, KDE ? if yes, go to control center / sound and set sound to alsa, not oss |
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Did you try modprobe alsa-oss yet?
I only asked about compiling kernel if you had needed to enable large memory support or something. It's not something you would need to do when installing slack unless you have >4GB ram. |
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Have you run alsaconf yet ?
I believe after run this command, /dev/dsp should be available if not, maybe run /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa |
I'm fairly sure that /dev/dsp is generated by loading alsa oss emulation module. Thats why I suggested modprobing alsa-oss.
If you haven't tried it yet or don't know how, open a terminal, su to root, type command 'modprobe alsa-oss'. If you get no error try ls /dev/dsp again. If it has worked then you may need to add the command to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules with full path: '/sbin/modprobe alsa-oss'. |
There is no module named "alsa-oss", the script /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa should load the required modules at boot (if it executable of course)
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2671 2008-04-01 01:18 /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa* Code:
# chown root:root /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa Code:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa |
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Loading OSS compatibility modules for ALSA. |
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