Re: [linux-audio-user] can anyone help me get my /dev/dsp back?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] can anyone help me get my /dev/dsp back?
From: Kevin Ernste (kevine88_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 02:38:08 EET

As has been said, Mandrake 8.1 uses devsf...which seems pretty flakey to
me at this point. On my system I just turned it off, and all of the
device issues I was having, including the one you describe, magically
disappeared.

To turn it off, edit lilo.conf for your main boot entry. Add
"devsf=nomount quiet". Here's the first entry from mine:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda3
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append=" hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount quiet mem=512M"
        vga=788
        read-only

Reboot, and that's it. To renable it, just change "nomount" to "mount.

Kevin

--- jordan muscott <morsecode_AT_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ive got a bit of a problem and was wondering if anyone on this list
> could be of any help...
> my setup:
> Mandrake linux 8.1
> Soundblaster 16 ISA plug and pray..
>
> basicically - i wiped my box the other day, and reinstalled mandrake
> 8.1. For the rest of the day i was happily listening to mp3s with xmms.
>
> I shut down my computer that night, and the next morning when i booted
> up, i started up xmms and it complained about not being able to open
> audio......and upon investigation i found that /dev/dsp no longer
> existed..
>
> when i tried a
> #MAKEDEV dsp
> i got the following errors:
>
> sb: SoundBlaster Vibra16X sb config failed (out of resources?)[-2]
> sb: no ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones
>
> however a file /dev/dsp did then appear as follows: (this doesnt look
> right to me...)
>
> [root_AT_larry dev]# ls -l | grep dsp
> crw------- 1 jordan audio 14, 3 Feb 3 20:19 dsp-
>
> if i try to set up my card using sndconfig (which has always worked in
> the past), it correctly detects my card but then fails to load the
> required kernel modules.
>
> as a further stab in the dark i wondered if there was an irq conflict
> going on somewhere, here is the output of cat'ing /proc/interrupts to a
> text file:
>
> CPU0
> 0: 712962 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 6057 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 7: 2 XT-PIC parport0
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 11: 5471 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0
> 12: 108304 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 14: 7515 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 8 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
>
> if i remember correctly my soundcard used to work on irq 5 .
>
> i really dont have a clue how to sort this out, so any help or advice
> would be welcome,
> thanks, Jordan.
>
>
>
>
>
>

=====
Kevin Ernste
Eastman School of Music
Eastman Computer Music Center
kevine_AT_ecmc.rochester.edu
http://www.esm.rochester.edu/kevine

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