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

[Jonas Karlsson]

2007/6/21, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com>:
> On 6/21/07, Hi There <goboster at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> It should pick it up automatically - if it doesn't, ALSA isn't
> enabled, isn't there, or isn't working. You may need to recompile ARTS
> if ALSA support wasn't enabled in it

If the GoboLinux recipe or package was used, alsa is enabled (arts is
a sub-part of kde-libs).

-- 
/Jonas