sound

[vlok stone]

Otay! I found the problem. What a doozy. 
the problem was that somehow the sym link /dev/dsp
disappeared. at 1st I was recreating dsp w/ mknod
and it worked until I rebooted and then it would 
make that a directory and the cycle continued.
I found that newer kernel apparently use a sym link
for apps looking for dsp -> /dev/sound/dsp
( ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp )
once that was created things are again blissful
in linuxland. Hope this helps someone else. 

--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Alsa may not be loading the 'oss' compatibility
> stuff.  When you type
> '/sbin/lsmod', do you see stuff like:
> snd-mixer-oss
> snd-pcm-oss
> snd-seq-oss
> 
> If not, try modprobing those things:
> modprobe snd-mixer-oss
> modprobe snd-pcm-oss
> modprobe snd-seq-oss
> 
> If that works, then you need to add those to the
> /etc/modules.conf
> file.  You can probably do it with something like:
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1712
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias sound-slot-0 ice1712
> 
> # OSS/Free portion - card #0 
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> NOTE that this is only an example and you need to
> change the 'ice1712' to
> whatever card you have.  YMMV
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> --- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > my problem seems to be deeper than just
> realplayer. 
> > i get no sound w/ any games. 
> > it looks for /dev/dsp and finds nothing.
> > there is no /dev/dsp
> > like i said xmms and alsaplayer work fine
> > the games had sound before now nothing
> > I have sblive audigy platinum
> > what is mknod command?
> > 
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