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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:15 pm    Post subject: No /dev/dsp Reply with quote

I have an Audigy 2 running on a MSI K8T neo motherboard with a AMD64 3200+ CPU. The Audigy works under XP on the same PC and under Gentoo running 32-bit on a different PC.

I have compiled the soundcard as a module and not as a module in the kernel (2.6.3) and it the modules load successfully, and it is detected by Gentoo. However, I don't have a
Code:

/dev/dsp


device, so my sound doesn't work.

Any ideas? Need more info?
Thanks.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps you should consult the ALSA howto guide in the Gentoo documents.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the OSS emulation enabled in your kernel config?
/dev/dsp is OSS, not ALSA...

BTW, ALSA doesn't like IOMMU support for some soundcards, so you may want to turn it off (but I'm not sure if it's even available on Athlon64 CPU's).
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've set-up this device on Gentoo several times before under various kernels and haven't had any problems. I have tried it with OSS emulation on and with it off, still no dice.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:21 pm    Post subject: DevFS? Reply with quote

Are you using DevFS?

In case you don't, a
Code:
cd /dev; MAKEDEV audio
might help.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got an audigy 1, no problems here.
Use the 'genkernel' config to compile your kernel, and
emerge hotplug ; rc-update add hotplug default
Which should make it auto-load the modules, you will
also probably want to rc-update add alsasound default
to make sure the oss emulation stuff gets set up...
Anyhow, that'll give you a starting point.

Then use 'alsamixer' to turn up the volume levels on everything,
and play a .WAV file with aplay to verify it's working at a console
level before you try it inside of X/GNOME/KDE.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, when I type
Code:

MAKEDEV audio

In the /dev/ directory, I get:

Code:

.devfsd presence implies active DevFS.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.


I do have /dev compiled into the kernel per the install instuctions, as well as automatically mount at boot.

Thanks.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could try manually creating a dsp dev file somewhere else as root:

Code:
mknod dsp c 14 3


And then check whether it's working:

Code:
dd if=some-file of=dsp

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 2:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just had this issue. In KDE select the control center icon -->sound and multimedia-->sound system. Click on the hardware tab change device from autodetect to Alsa.

I take the liberty of assuming you went through the ALSA config guide and that you are using KDE.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was having all kinds of problems with my install, so I redid it. Now everything works. Thanks for the help though!

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