[gobolinux-users] /dev/dsp disappeared after upgrade

[Hi There]

Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus <at> wotfun.com>
writes:

> 
> On 6/21/07, Hi There <goboster <at> yahoo.com>
wrote:
> > Got sound working even a little better now. In
case
*snip*
> > Some old
> > Ubuntu forums state this is due to artsd hogging
> > /dev/dsp at startup. So I
> > killed artsd, got sound back in all my apps but
KDE.
> > Disabled "enable sound
> > system" in the control panel, no errors at startup
> > (and no sound from KDE).
> KDE routes all its sound through artsd; if you're
using OSS, you have
> to choose whether you want sound there or in exactly
one other place
> at a time. You can try running everything via
artsdsp, but some
> programs don't play well with it (artsdsp -m will
help for some of
> those).
> 
> You really would be better off trying to get ALSA
going properly. If
> you have an Ubuntu or Knoppix CD around, use it and
see which modules
> they load for sound. You may want to save the output
of lsmod to disk
> and go through one by one to see which section of
the kernel config
> they're in if you don't recognise which it is. Or
enable the lot and
> modprobe them one at a time until it works. To be
clear though, the
> absence of /dev/dsp after that is expected behaviour
unless you've
> enabled legacy emulation, and programs should be
using the ALSA
> interface instead.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend using OSS to anybody (it's
deprecated for a
> reason). Any program that really needs /dev/dsp is
something you
> should look at replacing, since it clearly hasn't
been updated in a
> while.
> -Michael
> 

I know OSS is supposed to be a bad idea, originally
when I upgraded to the 
latest kernel I left it out entirely to "force" a
switch over. KDE complained 
about no /dev/dsp, and ALSA wasn't being used by the
Sound System (not even 
listed) though the modules appeared to be loaded. Any
idea if there's some 
config setting to make KDE recognize ALSA exists, and
force KDE to use it?


In any case, I'll try your Knoppix idea and see what
differences there are, 
thanks for the suggestion.



       
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