From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqqsq-0002NQ-8l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:19:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j68BHacn008210; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:17:36 GMT Received: from pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net (pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net [207.69.200.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j68BHZ1V028982 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:17:35 GMT Received: from h-68-167-188-26.noclli.covad.net ([68.167.188.26]) by pop04.mail.atl.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1DqqrW-00063y-00 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:17:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: arts From: Tres Melton To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42CE5C19.5040402@gotadsl.co.uk> References: <36728.80.166.75.19.1120793029.squirrel@mail.junc.org> <42CE5C19.5040402@gotadsl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:17:40 -0600 Message-Id: <1120821461.808.245.camel@thor.tres.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8a217be2-e24d-4856-aeb9-18b11809b4b9 X-Archives-Hash: 615a26552e00fa73fac570e83523a864 On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I hope I'm not hijacking this thread ;-) but can anyone tell me > what creates /dev/dsp in the first place? On this newly reinstalled > Xfce4 system it doesn't exist, even though the kernel sound modules do > and have been loaded. I think that it is created by the deprecated devfs package. The newer udev package uses /dev/sound/dsp and make /dev/dsp a link to the newer one for compatibility but since you don't have one it may only create the link if the old device was there. -- Tres -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list