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weeniewhite

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From: Saint-Nicolas, Quebec

Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 37

(/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

I just updated to arch 0.8 from 0.7.1 and I have a problem with sound.

Xine and xmms do not play music. When I run xmms in a terminal and try to play a mp3, I get this error: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory.

I looked in /dev and found no /dsp. So I created it this way : mknod dsp c 14 3. I then gave permissions to my user with chown and chgrp. When I start xmms and make it play a mp3, it changes my modules and gets what it needs to play. It plays... until I reboot.

When I run "lsmod | grep snd", I get this output :
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snd_via82xx            23320  0
snd_ac97_codec         91940  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm_oss            38944  0
snd_pcm                68612  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss          14464  1 snd_pcm_oss
gameport               11784  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2432  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              18948  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7816  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7040  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            19360  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6796  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    44004  9 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6624  1 snd
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When I reboot, /dev/dsp disappears and I have to start all over.

I also tried alsaconf but it doesn't fix the problem.

Help help :!:

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[weeniewhite@myhost ~]$ sudo make bagel
make: *** No rule to make target `bagel'.  Stop.

Asaru

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Registered: 2006-05-06

Posts: 14

Re: (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

try

pacman -S alsa-oss

weeniewhite

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From: Saint-Nicolas, Quebec

Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 37

Re: (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

I already tried it but I just fix the problem.

I commented these lines in /etc/modprobe.conf:

install snd-pcm modprobe -i snd-pcm ; modprobe snd-pcm-oss ; true
install snd-seq modprobe -i snd-seq ; modprobe snd-seq-oss ; true

And now it works.. I don't know why.

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[weeniewhite@myhost ~]$ sudo make bagel
make: *** No rule to make target `bagel'.  Stop.

QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 228

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Re: (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

It's possible that the kernel installed with 0.8 has a built in module support for the card.  Manually modprobing the same module a 2nd time might just cause a resourse conflict of two drivers trying to use 1 hardware.

It's a thought...

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