[Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

[Rob Hudson]

I just saw mention that devfs might be deprecated.  Anyone know about
this?  If that's my problem, maybe I shouldn't be using it at all.  I
thought devfs was the new way to do /dev.

On 20040801.1733, Rob Hudson said ...

> 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
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