The /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer devices are missing at boot time. This occurs whether modules are autoloaded by Alsa or when loaded from modules.autload. All the modules get loaded, alsamixer shows the volume correct, but the devices don't exist.
Taking this one.
Hi, Kent: What you need is to load OSS compatibility modules, and those devices will appear. Just load snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss. Since this is optional, Gentoo's alsa packages don't do that by default. If you want this to happen automatically, you can add these two lines to /etc/conf.d/local.start: modprobe snd-mixer-oss modprobe snd-pcm-oss
Thanks, that worked. Actually, that got my devices back and it still didn't work. Users of the cmipci module also need to use alsamixer and enable several new options that this version added.
