/dev/dsp missing

[John M. Moniz]

Neil Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:39:57PM -0500, John M. Moniz wrote:
>
>> Interesting. The missing audio mixer and /dev/dsp came from the 
>> trouble shooting steps in the configuration tool.
>
>
> Most likely you need to ensure that the old OSS compatible kernel
> modules are loaded:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by
> snd_pcm_oss            38368  0 snd_mixer_oss          15200  1 
> snd_pcm_oss
>
It turns out that the problem was a hardware one. I moved the card to 
another PCI slot and it worked,  /dev/dsp appeared and the mixer errors 
disappeared.

It's great to have live CDs to work from, it showed that the sound card 
didn't work in any configuration.
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