[SLUG] /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp

From: Norbert Omar Cartagena (niccademous@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 08:27:01 EDT


Hey all. I've decided to give Red Hat 7.1 a try on my laptop, due mostly
to job reasons. When I installed it, everything seemed great with the
system, except for the always present "minor quirks" all systems have
before you presonalize them. Well, as it turns out one of these "minor
quirks" is actually a rather large quirk. Turns out that there's no
/dev/mixer or /dev/dsp (curiously enough there's a /dev/dspW, which I
have not a clue as to what it is). Now, in RH7.1 there's a file in the
root directory called /dev-state which had all the files that were
missing, such as mixer and dsp, linked to a folder within it called
sound. I tried to link /dev-state/sound/mixer to /dev/mixer, but any
time I try to open XMMS (or any app that uses the mixer), I get a
complaint that the mixer could not be initializer, or that I can't open
the device /dev/mixer. I've tried MAKEDEV, but for some reason I can't
(even as root!) copy or move the tool to that directory (yes, I have the
permisions, and n, it doen't already exist there). Anyone have any
hints? The soundcard is working, at least as far as I can tell from
/sbin/sndconfig which tested out my card and nicely played for me Linus
Torvald's voice pronouncing Linux.

Also, what's up with this?

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 dev
                                                  ~~~~~~

HUH?!

Thanks in advance,

Norb

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