2009/2/16 Viral Mehta <viral.mehta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi All, > > > When I booted my kernel, I found that there was no "/dev/dsp" device and > so my application was not able to run. The application opens "/dev/dsp" > device first and then does other things. > /dev/dsp is the OSS API. So an install without OSS will not have /dev/dsp. An application that supports alsa will link to libasound. If you have an OSS application that you want to work with ALSA, you need to add the ALSA OSS emulation layer. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel