Re: creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem. > > There's a sound faq for debian >   http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ > which advises installing the package oss_compat. > > I did >   sudo apt-get install oss_compat Ack!!! that

Re: creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem. There's a sound faq for debian http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ which advises installing the package oss_compat. I did sudo apt-get install oss_compat and it created /dev/dsp, and snd and gnusound now make a sound. Sorry for t

creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

I'm trying out different sound editors on debian 6.0.4 ("squeeze"). Some of them work fine right out of the box (mhwaveedit and kwave) and some won't play sound (gnusound and snd). (So no matter what, i know that hardware shouldn't be an issue since i can play sound from some software without any