Sound broken by Synaptic. Anyone else? Any thoughts

Ken D'Ambrosio ken at jots.org
Mon Nov 21 17:15:01 EST 2005


Well... it's not unheard-of that a /dev file simply goes away (during an
update and the like).  Perhaps you might wish to re-create it.  Using my
own /dev/dsp as a referent, you'd do a:

# mknod /dev/dsp c  14  3

If that doesn't work, you're no worse off than you were before...

-Ken

Bill Freeman wrote:

>Cole Tuininga writes:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:52 -0500, Bill Freeman wrote:
> > Keep in mind that testing != Sarge.  Sarge is the currently stable
> > distribution.  Testing is (by definition) not the stable release.
>
>	Yes.  Somewhere I knew that.  Sarge was testing when I
>installed it.  (Sarge, then testing, worked, while Woody, then stable,
>did not work.  Go figure.)  So my repositories are for testing.  I
>didn't happen to notice when it changed, so I haven't thought about
>switching.  However, as you point out, testing is usually low risk:
>
> > If you're willing to take the risk (usually fairly low) of running
> > testing, you have to accept any problems that come with it.
> > 
> > That's not to say that this is necessarily the issue, but it's always
> > possible...
>
>	Thanks.  Sound usually isn't importatnt to me, so I'll
>probably wait to see if it comes back in a future update, unless I get
>some other suggestions to try.
>
>							Bill
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