On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After successfully installing stretch on a system, there > was no /dev/dsp. I needed to play some mp3 files and so > installed mplayer. [...]
/dev/dsp is part of the legacy OSS (Open Sound System) interface. If you play audio using only ALSA, or ALSA + Pulse, you do not need this older interface. If your software requires the /dev/dsp interface (because it predates ALSA), you can try loading the snd-pcm-oss module. At least, that's what the IRC bot says to do. It also pointed me to <http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/NoLinuxDevDsp>, if that's of any help.
