[Sderby] No Sound?

[David Jolley]

* Chris (chrisc01@ntlworld.com) wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm having probs getting sound through using MD 9.0.  Using my onboard 
> soundcard, I just get an error message at boot that there's no such 
> device as /dev/dsp, which there isn't.  The /dev folder contains no file 
> or folder of this name.  The MD control centre provided no configuration 
> options.
> 
Ooops.  Try running MAKEDEV (it should be in your /dev directory) as
root, with the single parameter 'audio', it'll create /dev/dsp for you.

> Assuming poor support for onboard chips, I bought and fitted a card with 
> a C-Media chip, having checked that it is definitely supported.  Same 
> result :-(
> 
If you ain't got /dev/dsp (and /dev/mixer for that matter - you need
to set volumes) you aren't going to get any sound, irrespective of how
many soundcard drivers are loaded :)

> Does anyone know a fix for this?  Any help gratefully received.
> 
Hopefully, `MAKEDEV audio` will sort it out...

Cheers,

Dave

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