Thanks for all your help. the issue was that snd-pcm-oss is not being loaded at startup, once I load snd-pcm-oss via insmod snd-pcm-oss the /dev/dsp device is created and everything works.
thanks again -arlo- p.s. I don't know why snd-pcm-oss is not loading at start. I get the following error "unresolved symbol snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card" but it will load from a kde terminal. if you have any Ideas please share. I may post this issue separately. On Friday 12 September 2003 12:44 pm, Arlo wrote: > thanks for taking the time. > > I know this is probably a stupid question and maybe I'm just missing > something really obvious, but how can I determin what device under /dev/ is > my sound card using. > I'm using the sound chip (Intel8x0) built into the Asus A7N8x motherboard, > and I followed the instructions in the alsa guide on the gentoo site. my > sound works fine from noatun, aplay, etc.. > However I'm setting up Mythtv and I need to specify the device. Everyone on > the mailing lists seems to have a device /dev/dsp, I don't. Many app > (xawtv, Mythtv) look at /dev/dsp by default for sound. > > Do I have to create /dev/dsp? > > do I need to add an option to modules.conf (via > /etc/module.autoload.d/alsa, modules-update)? > > I install alsa-oss if it maters. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
