Rich, Give Google a shot "/dev/dsp missing"
I've not had this issue but .... On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Last Monday, for the first time, my server/workstation suddenly locked > up; > no keyboard or mouse response. Hanged, not resting. So, I shut off the > system, waited a few seconds, powered on again. Got everything running > again > ... except for sound. > > Alsamixer uses the correct sound card. Alsactrl init did nothing. > > When I try to play an .mp3 file with xmms I get this error: > > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such > ** file or directory > > mplayer also fails to produce sound: audio_setup: Can't open audio > device > /dev/dsp: No such file or directory > Failed to initialize audio driver 'oss' > > There is no /dev/dsp or /dev/sound > > aplay -l finds the sound card. > > Web searches found no solution that worked because /dev/dsp does not > exist > on Slackware-14.1 until needed. > > However, root has no issue playing a .mp3 file with xmms, but produces > the > same mplayer error. > > What might I have missed here? Past reboots did not cripple the sound > system as long as I turned up the volumn in alsamixer. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
