TVH 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2004 I have a 3 sound card setup, and I've succesfully disabled two of 'em in linux by not loading the modules on boot. (more details on THIS topic) Now the only problem is that my /dev/dsp is missing! That's why I can't get sound output in Enemy Territory for example. Otherwise, sounds work fine in XMMS and Xine. What can I do to get /dev/dsp file present? my /dev/sounds direcory is also empty. I'm running MDK 10.0 which by the way is awesome!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aRTee 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2004 I had loads of problems on sound, see my config page on my site... webcam related, but let's just say in the process of fixing things, I learnt a lot... Do you at least have /dev/sound and /dev/snd, and can you post the contents of those, with ls -l /dev/sound and ls -l /dev/snd What happens if you do soundwrapper [normal command to start ET] meaning: precede the command to start ET by the word soundwrapper (not a solution, too much delay on the audio, even if you set things to minimum delay in KDE control centre - but just to see where your system is at..) Your system may benefit by following similar steps that I took to get my devices sorted out. BTW /dev/dsp is just a link to the /dev/sound/dsp device. Or was it /dev/snd/dsp...? Think the former... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VILLA21 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2004 I have the same problem(actually, happened when i tried to config TVcard and on the reboot there is no /dev/dsp). Here"s what i get: [root@localhost panos]# ls -l /dev/soundtotal 0 crw------- 1 panos audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw------- 1 panos audio 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer [root@localhost panos]# ls -l /dev/snd ls: /dev/snd: No such file or directory [root@localhost panos]# What shall i do now? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VILLA21 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2004 @aRTee ?? Now, i have sound in media palyers and no sound in KDE, eg no sound for system notifications... :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aRTee 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2004 Seems you have to make a link, su (give password) cd /dev ln -s sound/dsp dsp ln -s sound/mixer mixer and start artsd, to do that open the KDE control centre, then search for sound (left hand side, tab for search), find your way to system sound stuff, switch on the sound server. Not on my machine, can't tell the exact names/locations. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VILLA21 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2004 No cure with the symlinks u suggested. Things are getting worse, today i rebooted my PC and i lost my network configuration plus the sound, the error msg i got for sound is: ound server informational message:Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I"m getting crazy with this crap called MD 10CE, or it"s a pre-alpha version? :( i attach also my /etc/modules.conf : probeall scsi_hostadapter imm ppaprobeall usb-interface usb-uhci options bttv radio=1 gbuffers=4 alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio Any help is highly appreciated.... Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites