[Eug-lug] esound and devfs?

[Jacob Meuser]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:14:24AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> 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

to get /dev/dsp, you need to modprobe snd_oss_pcm (OSS compat.)

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