Re: [Hampshire] Missing /dev/mixer on Debian...

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Author: John Hunt
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Missing /dev/mixer on Debian...
Hugo's thing seemed to do it!

Thanks guys.
John.

On 11/20/06, Jamie Webb <j@???> wrote:
> 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?
>
> -- Jamie Webb
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