I lost sound recently. Couldn't figure out why. Don't know what prompted me to check, but I noticed that /dev/sound was missing.

I need to go about replacing this file, and was wondering what the recommended way was. It has been a while since I made a device file and am scared

If there is somewhere to get it from that would make me feel a million times better.

I still want to know what happened to the dern file. Guess I should have made backups...

I still use oss but i have used alsa some, so from memory

did you recompile your kernel? that might explain why you lost /dev/sound ... its usually the dev file alsa uses

I think the alsa that is packaged with slack is slightly different version then comes with the kernel in 2.6 and totally different then the latest alsa stable. try reinstalling the alsa package from a slack site just download the tgz file and updatepkg. There are 3 of them that make up alsa. i think there is a new version from the slack sites that is updated for the 2.4.25 kernel that is out. The alsa for 2.4.24 or earlier versions wont work.

if you are using the correct alsa for your 2.4 kernel or the alsa in 2.6 you may need to recreate you dev file ... i think it should be:
mknod /dev/sound -c 14 3 <--- the 14 3 maybe different for alsa though you might want to start and new thread and just ask for the major minor number for the /dev/sound device file

Thanks. That is the information I needed.

I can't put it to the test (see my new thread: unable to create initial console).

Basically, my computer won't boot.

I think I hooped it good.