On Sunday 18 December 2005 00:42, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to write: > On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is /dev/dsp actually missing on startup, or just created with the > > > wrong permissions? > > > > Apparently it has the wrong permissions, or so says the message when I > > start KDE,but if I reset them, next boot they are changed. Either > > resetting permissions, or doing # udevstart allows me to use /dev/dsp as > > user but changes don't survive a reboot. > > Hmm, /dev/dsp is only necessary for legacy OSS support...it should not > be necessary with KDE, which _should_ be able to use the ALSA > interface. Do you have the alsa USE flag set? > Hmm, no
IIRC, when I first installed on this box, I had to go with oss (nforce2 mobo w/onboard sound). > What are the permissions that it is being created with? (Do "ls -l > /dev/dsp" from a console after startup without logging into KDE). > > > > Are you using a device tarball (RC_DEVICE_TARBALL in /etc/conf.d/rc)? > > > > Yes. > > I would suggest turning TARBALL off. It is almost certainly not needed > today. Turned it off. Let's see > > One possibility is that the device is comfing from the tarball, but > not being recreated by udev for some reason. You can check this with: > > tar -tjvf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 $ sudo tar -tjvf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 | grep dsp crw------- root/audio 14,19 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp1 crw------- root/audio 14,35 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp2 crw------- root/audio 14,51 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp3 > > Also, what messages do you get on bootup between "Starting udevd" and > "Mounting /dev/pts..." Can't see Starting udevd is dmesg or kern.log.0 will try to catch it next boot > > Do you CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y or =m in your kernel configuration? > cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep SND_PCM_OSS CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=y Rebooting with these changes. I'll get back to you soon. Thanks again. > -Richard Rebooting with these changes. I'll get back to you soon. Thanks again. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 08:07:29 up 8:26, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.69, 0.66 Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r42.6.14-r-4_new i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
