Daem0hn Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 i have literally lost /dev/sound/dsp i think someone has kidnapped it and holding it for ransom :ninja: i have no idea when or where i lost it, it is really confusing me the last thing i recall doing is emerging alsa, however sound was working after then i have also managed to get gdesklets working, this is when i first noticed the problem, when i was testing the corner xmms player gdesklet i have tried lsof to see if anything is using /dev/sound/dsp also tried running xmms in fluxbox, gnome, kde, and some other wm i happen to have to see if it was a wm based process that was hogging the sound file it was then i decided to run xmms in terminal instead of seeing, /dev/dound/dsp device or resource busy i see ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory then i started eeping and crying like a little girl, well not literally, but i was very confused so i did an updatedb then locate */dsp hoping that it woudl just have moved house or something but no, i think its been kidnapped, its not ther anymore, eep is there anyway that i can recreate the file, or re-emerge drivers that would reinstate the file in its right directory??? please help, i have a scrim for enemyterritory in a few days and i need sound to play it thanks in advace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomn Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 I think i've had that error before in other distros, but it was actually a permission error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daem0hn Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 i think actually you might be right, doesnt explain why it didnt turn up in locate what are the proper permissions? 644 = -rw--r---r ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daem0hn Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 thankyou so much, you were right thankyou, i would have been stumped for days without you cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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