ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem. There's a sound faq for debian http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ which advises installing the package oss_compat.
I did sudo apt-get install oss_compat and it created /dev/dsp, and snd and gnusound now make a sound. Sorry for the false alarm. (Although --- when i did the installation, i got this error message: "FATAL: Module snd_seq_oss not found." Nevertheless, the return status of the apt-get command was 0, the /dev/dsp device was created, and i can now hear sound from those two programs i couldn't hear from before. All this just for reference in case somebody stumbles across this post.) dan On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying out different sound editors on debian 6.0.4 ("squeeze"). > > Some of them work fine right out of the box (mhwaveedit > and kwave) and some won't play sound (gnusound and snd). > > (So no matter what, i know that hardware shouldn't be an > issue since i can play sound from some software without > any issues.) > > All of these come from > sudo apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME > > I believe that gnusound and snd fail because they are > trying to use /dev/dsp, which does not exist on my system. > > Now . . . it seems like /dev/dsp would or should be created > for any package which needs it --- so i think i should file > a bug about this (but not sure exactly where). > > But maybe not, maybe there is some standard step > i should be taking to guarantee that /dev/dsp gets created. > > If so, what would that step be? > > Thanks in advance for any help (and obviously i'm quite > a neophyte here, so i appreciate any suggestions). > > dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOphizK5e2FL0GT6UiP-5oDxeuXL=-aurUqk+9iUe=enma_...@mail.gmail.com