/dev/dsp disappeared after power outage

[Bert JW Regeer]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 08:03 , John Baldwin wrote:

> On Saturday 02 February 2008 06:40:15 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>> I just had a power outage and when it came back /dev/dsp0.0 was
>> missing from the devices.   the kern module loaded fine and detected
>> the card correctly (according to dmesg, sysctl and /dev/sndstat) but
>> neither the above or /dev/pcm exists.  After rebooting the problem
>> remains. Any ideas how to fix it?
>
> Nothing to fix.  This is how devfs device cloning works.
>
> --  
> John Baldwin


Nothing to fix? The sound card that is correctly detected by the  
kernel module is not being created in /dev, ONLY after he had a power  
outage. It is not even coming back when he reboots the machine.

I don't have any suggestions, I just don't believe "Nothing to fix" is  
the right answer.

Bert JW Regeer