Author: Jamie Webb Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Missing /dev/mixer on Debian...
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:15:12PM +0000, John Hunt wrote: > I've just finished setting up debian etch (well, sort of). Everything
> is going quite well, I have sound, but freevo moans that it can't
> access /dev/mixer and won't play anything. I have it set for mplayer
> to use it's oss driver (much better than the alsa driver for sound
> sync in videos).
>
> I've got a few alsa-oss packages installed, but I just don't seem to
> get a /dev/mixer node.
/dev/mixer should just be a symlink to /dev/sound/mixer. Do you have
that? Perhaps the mixer module is not loaded? What does lsmod say?
