On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Andy Farnell
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:46:40 -0400
> Ichabod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > do you have a file called /dev/dsp ?
> > > If yes, can you open a terminal and type the following:
> > >
> > > sudo su
> > > cat /dev/mem > /dev/dsp
> > >
> > > if it makes no sound, or if you don't have this file, let us know.
> > >
> > > Thanks.  When I try that it tells me "cat: write error: No space left
> on
> > device"...
>
> Did you try running MAKEDEV while in the /dev directory as root?
> Until you have an audio device node here ALSA won't get much further.


OK, I looked at man makedev and then cd'ed to /dev and tried sudo ./MAKEDEV
audio and similar commands, and it tells me that ".udevdb or .udev presence
implies active udev."  What does that mean?
--Stefan
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