rplay fails to run

[Maurizio Dall'Acqua]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:31:57 +0100
Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Maurizio Dall'Acqua wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:27:33 +0100
> > Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what you want to achieve with that devrplay.so. As I
> > > understand it, there is no /dev/dsp on a default Ubuntu system and
> > > to
> > > me it doesn't look like devrplay.so would add that device. Instead
> > > that library seems to add support to read the /dev/dsp device if
> > > it is available.
> 
> > Since there isn't /dev/dsp in a default Ubuntu system what can
> > replace it? I mean can I create a symlink to
> > /dev/default-ubuntu-audio-device? If so, what is it?
> 
> Nowadays sound is handled by pulseaudio or at a lower level by ALSA.
> I think most applications use those sound systems instead of the old
> OSS (which used /dev/dsp). If you really need /dev/dsp for some
> reason, you can install the package "osspd".
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. I have installed "osspd" package but rplayd
gives the same error message:

rplayd: rplay_audio_init: cannot open /dev/dsp

Should I do something more than installing "osspd"?