/dev/dsp* & /dev/audio* devices not present

[Vladimir Terziev]

Hi Matthias,

i configured Ekiga and during the configuration process it didn't find
any Audio device, so i think /dev/dsp* devices must be present, isn't
it ?

Regards,

Vladimir

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 20:10 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, January 07, 2009 a las 06:52:31PM +0200, Vladimir
> Terziev escribió:
> 
>         ...
> 
> > device sound
> > device snd_hda
> >
> >
> > The driver seems to recognize the controller:
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep pcm
> >
> > pcm0: <Intel 82801G High Definition Audio Controller> mem
> > 0xe04c0000-0xe04c3fff irq 21 at device 27.0 on pci0
> > pcm0: [ITHREAD]
> > pcm0: <HDA Codec: Realtek ALC260>
> > pcm0: <HDA Driver Revision: 20071129_0050>
> >
> >
> > This is also confirmed here:
> >
> > $ cat /dev/sndstat
> > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> > Installed devices:
> > pcm0: <Intel 82801G High Definition Audio Controller> at memory
> > 0xe04c0000 irq 21 [20071129_0050] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels
> duplex
> > default)
> 
> all fine until here;
> 
> >
> > Now the problem ...
> > The strange thing is all audio related devices are missing in /dev
> >
> > $ ls -l /dev/audio* /dev/dsp*
> > ls: /dev/audio*: No such file or directory
> > ls: /dev/dsp*: No such file or directory
> 
> fine too; you will not see /dev/dsp* with ls(1), just open the device
> /dev/dsp with some application and it will appear;
> 
> > Respectively i have no working sound support :(
> 
> what you mean exactly with 'i have no working sound support'?
> try changing the values with the mixer(1) command if no sound is
> coming
> out from apps;
> 
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