/dev/dsp missing

[John M. Moniz]

Ian Petersen wrote:

> I think /dev/dsp is an artifact of the Open Sound System (OSS) which
> has been obsoleted by the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).
> Perhaps the audio-players your daughter uses can be configured to use
> ALSA instead of OSS?  Maybe you need to turn on OSS emulation?  My
> laptop is running Gentoo Linux, plays sounds fine, and does not have
> /dev/dsp.
>
> Ian
>
Interesting. The missing audio mixer and /dev/dsp came from the trouble 
shooting steps in the configuration tool.
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