[Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

[Rob Hudson]

I compiled in DEVFS support into my 2.6 kernel and I'm using Gnome 2.6,
which uses esound (esd).  When I try to start up esound, it get an
error:
/dev/dsp: No such file or directory

I can't create the file like in the old /dev (whatever that was).

In /etc/devfsd.conf I found this, but am not sure what it does or how I
should manipulate it or other files:
LOOKUP          dsp          MODLOAD

I've got lots of sound drives loaded as modules:
# lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx            22692  0
snd_ac97_codec         60292  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm                78472  1 snd_via82xx
snd_timer              19460  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8968  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
gameport                3712  1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart         5760  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            18980  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6408  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    44260  7 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device

Not sure if that's what "MODLOAD" means?

Any advice?

Thanks,
Rob