I have one machine with a CM8330 sound chip that is almost working, but not quite, under alsa. The problem is that the symbolic link to /dev/dsp points to the wrong device, /dev/sound/dsp, instead of the one that actually works, /dev/sound/adsp. If I manually change the link to adsp I start to get sound. (I didn't think I could do that with devfs, but it works. Of course, all these devices don't exist at boot time until I start using alsamixer and xmms.) Oddly enough, there is also a /dev/sound/dsp but when I try to cat a wav file to it I get a "No such device" error even though it shows up this way: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Dec 31 1969 adsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Dec 31 1969 audio crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp If I cat the wav file to adsp I do get sound, as I said. So--the question is who makes the incorrect link to /dev/sound/dsp and can it be changed? My alsa aliases are below: alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore alias snd-card-0 snd-cmi8330 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss and this is who gets loaded: Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-cmi8330 5124 0 (autoclean) snd-ad1848-lib 8576 0 (autoclean) [snd-cmi8330] snd-sb16-dsp 5888 0 (autoclean) [snd-cmi8330] snd-sb-common 6392 0 (autoclean) [snd-cmi8330 snd-sb16-dsp] snd-pcm-oss 34532 0 snd-pcm 46816 0 [snd-ad1848-lib snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 9728 0 [snd-pcm] isa-pnp 27836 0 [snd-cmi8330] snd-mpu401-uart 2864 0 [snd-sb16-dsp] snd-rawmidi 12480 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3712 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd 25032 0 [snd-cmi8330 snd-ad1848-lib snd-sb16-dsp snd-sb-common snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
Walt, are you still experiencing this problem? If so, what version of alsa are you using, and what alsa packages do you have installed?
Closing for the lack of feedback.
