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

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Thu, 08.01.2009 at 09:06:45 +0200, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 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 ?

Please run
% cat /dev/sndstat
% ls -l /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp0.0

The reason you are not seeing them with 'ls /dev/dsp*' is because devfs
is creating the nodes when they are open(2)'ed. Using shell globbing will
search the output of readdir(2) for matches to dsp* where devfs has no
way of dynamically creating nodes (which ones should it create anyway?)

This is a FAQ really.

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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