Re: [Sheflug] Device problem

[Sammy <nospam [at] cableinet.co.uk>]

Ian Wright wrote:
try typing in sndconfig in the condsole that should work

> Hi,
>
> After installing Mandrake 7.2, I have been trying to persuade my
> Soundblaster gold card to work with it. However, all I got was an error
> message reporting that /dev/dsp couldn't be found. Thinking that this might
> be due to an error in the distribution, I installed the latest 2.2.18 kernel
> but this made no difference. There was a file called 'dsp' in the /dev
> directory but, when I looked at it's properties, it said that it found a
> file but was expecting a directory. In messing about with it I have now
> somehow lost this 'dsp' entry in the /dev directory and can't find a way to
> re-create it. I have tried to use MAKEDEV which consistently says it doesn't
> know how to make /dev/dsp and I have read through all the HOWTOs which look
> even vaguely relevant - all to no avail. The soundcard seems to be working
> OK as I can 'cat <file>.au > /dev/audio' and get an output but I obviously
> can't do anything with more complex sounds.
>
> So, can anyone tell me (a) how to replace the missing /dev/dsp
> (b) why the original file didn't work
> (c) anything else I should know about this installation!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield  UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
>
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