how to have /dev/audio on ubuntu?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

I remain confused. But I want to thank for responses, Russell and Mel.

It seems that if I do not want to risk damaging the existing sound 
system I should not play too deep with what is there already.

Fortunately, I have another box with Centos, and /dev/audio is still there.

zb.

On 09/21/2012 12:59 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> Ubuntu did not do a very good job of integrating pulseaudio. It's got
> a lot of features but demands complete control over the sound hardware
> and it looks like the Ubuntu folks rolled it out too quickly.
>
> If your hardware is older it might be better to go back to ALSA/OSS. I
> haven't seen many problems with pulseaudio in newer equipment with
> newer installs.
>
> I think ALSA still present in Ubuntu
>
> On the command line
> $speaker-test (plays white noise)
> $aplay - l (lists playback devices)
> $arecord -l (lists record devices)
>
> $alsamixer (make sure PCM volume is not muted.)
>
> or $pavucontrol (under pulse for the same reason.)
>
> This site may be helpful.
> http://www.hecticgeek.com/2012/01/how-to-remove-pulseaudio-use-alsa-ubuntu-linux/
>
> Hope this helps
> Russell
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Zbigniew Koziol<softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>> I am so much confused by reading web, and I swear I never understood how
>> sound works (except of the times of DOS).
>>
>> My program reports:
>>
>> [siggen] No such file or directory : /dev/audio
>>
>> "siggen" is the name of the program I want to use, but the error message, I
>> guess, is not related to the program itself.
>>
>> So, how can I make siggen not reporting that silly error message but just
>> working right away?
>>
>> My Ubuntu version is one of the latest ones.
>>
>> zb.
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>>
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