why don't you consider using alsa. it rocks even on an i810 ?
today i too got a "/dev/dsp no such device" error. did a ./snddevics (in the
alsa dir) and things get restored, easy :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hanon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Sound problem
> Hi out there,
>
> I run Mandrake 7.1
> When I check the sound card (Sound Blaster Live!) under Drakconf, I hear
the
> sound of the test, but when I press OK I got the message: sox:Can't open
> output file '/dev/dsp': no such device.
> When I run esd I get same answer.
> In directory /dev I have entries dsp; dsp0, dsp1, dsp2, dsp3 all belong to
> user but have length of 0 bytes
> When I try to run XMMS I got message cannot open soundcard or something
like
> it and nothing happen.
>
> I was previously running RH 6.2 on the same machine and never had any
> problem running xmms (at least not the same kind)
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
> John Hanon
>
>
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