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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 12:33:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42DAB280.2050505@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050717185937.19928.qmail@web53603.mail.yahoo.com>

E. Pereira wrote:
> As I told before my system gives me
> 
>>WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device
>>(/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory
> 
> when I try to play audio.
> So I took a peek in my system and discovered, while
> trying to install alsa-driver, that ALSA is already
> compiled into my kernel. So what should I do?
> 
> Thanks for any possible help,
> e.pereira
>  

Well, /dev/sound belongs to the deprecated oss api so you need to enable oss emulation:

mkdir /etc/portage
echo "media-sound/alsa-driver oss" >> /etc/portage/package.use
emerge -av alsa-driver
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart

Zac
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-17 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-17 18:59 [gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again E. Pereira
2005-07-17 19:33 ` Zac Medico [this message]

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