When I start the KDE I get a message box with the entry: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) When I look in the directory /dev there is no entry dsp Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login 2. kdm 3. login KDE 4. when the world symbol is activ at login the error box pop up Actual Results: no sound Expected Results: Installing the devices I need
Do you have the latest and greatest baselayout installed? I have /dev/dsp and it softlinks to /dev/sound/dsp. /dev/sound/dsp is a character device, major 14 minor 3. You are using devfs too, right?
I just installed KDE with emerge KDE I have no directory /dev/dsp and I have an empty directory /dev/sound How do I create this diretories (device)? What is devfs ?
Do you have a soundcard, and if so, did you configure alsa for it. Without a soundcard you will indeed not have this device. You could put this of, by going to the kde configuration panel and there sound&multimedia-sound system. There you can click on start aRts ... and remove the check. Then the soundsystem should be disabled.
The whole error message is: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
I got that far. Does /proc/asound exist. If it does you might want to change the settings in the control center to use alsa instead of oss. Also you might want to take a look at the gentoo desktop guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml
You also might want to take a look at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
Thanks a lot. #5 and #6 work for me.
