Rules files missing after upgrade

[Sid Boyce]

On 06/07/10 20:12, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2010/7/5 Sid Boyce<sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>> I reinstalled udev and it showed /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2 and
>> /dev/dsp3. After a reboot
>> # l /dev/dsp*
>> ls: cannot access /dev/dsp*: No such file or directory
>> I copied /lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/
>> when it first happened, but that doesn't fix it, neither does playing
>> with udevadm.
>> I have 2 sound cards, one onboard, one USB and applications that need
>> access to /dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1.
>> # l /etc/udev/rules.d/
>> total 28
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  110 2010-04-30 03:14 40-usrp.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1239 2010-05-13 11:15 70-persistent-cd.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  603 2010-03-10 08:08 70-persistent-net.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4905 2010-06-27 20:30 78-sound-card.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  744 2010-05-14 20:53 88-softrock.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1157 2009-10-16 07:01 README
>>
>> Regards
>> Sid.
>
> I don't think it has anything with your UDEV rules. If i remember
> right the /dev/dsp /dev/sequenser and /dev/mixer is devices used with
> OSS and I don't think OSS has been used in a default settings with
> Kubuntu for several versions. If you still want to use OSS you can
> load the drivers:
> snd_seq_oss
> snd_pcm_oss
> snd_mixer_oss
>
> or run the program with the alsa "aoss" tool.
>
> Good luck!
>
> / Jonas
>

Thanks, that explains it. I've now got it working with aoss.
Regards
Sid.

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