Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi!
> After installing compiling and installing alsa from the source, I am
> still not able to get some music to run.
>
> I receive the error message:
>
> sox: Can't open output file: '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
>
> /dev/dsp doesn't exist, what could mean that the devfsd application
> didn't set up the virtual filesystem for the soundcard.
>
> what I did:
>
> Kernel: Soundcard support is available and devfsd (with automount at
> boottime) is activated
>
> alsa: latest alsa stuff downloaded, compiled and installed
> alsa: soundcard is confifured with alsaconfig
>
> Sample Linux-User with audio access is created!
>
> For any ideas and help to solve my problem, I would thank very much

/dev/dsp is an OSS device, not an ALSA device. You need to enable OSS
emulation in the kernel (look in the ALSA section), which creates the
(deprecated) devices for you.

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Regards,

Karsten