[wellylug] /dev/mouse & /dev/dsp missing !

[Jason aladellocchio]

On 10/14/05, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I booted up my Debian unstable distro today only to find
> the cursor static in center of screen and no sound.
>
> Upon checking, the hardware is OK, but I cannot find
> /dev/mouse as specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Mplayer gives
> me the message


/dev/mouse is depreciated. All it's supposed to be is a link to /dev/psaux
as far as I recall but on my system it doesn't exist either. I'd guess it
was removed as it's not supposed to be used any more. The most recommended
thing to change it to would be /dev/input/mice as this reads from all mice
that the system knows of so you don't have to manually specify each one you
attach to the system.

"audio setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: no such device"
>
> Upon checking, /dev/dsp proves to be missing.
>
> What is happening here ? Is this part of some unstable apt-upgrade/update
> transition ? Have others had the same problem ?


What sound modules were you using previously? alsa or oss? Since oss is
depreciated I'd guess also but then I hav no idea why you've got mplayer set
to play via oss rather than alsa.

If you are using alsa like me. I had alsa sound work fine but not programs
that still tried to use oss devices after my last transition. The alsa sound
modules were loaded but not the oss modules that provide backwards
compatibility with oss sound devices. Try loading, snd-mixer-oss and
snd-pcm-oss (modprobe snd-mixer-oss, modprobe snd-mixer-oss) and see if that
makes /dev/dsp appear. If so add those modules to your /etc/modules file so
they are loaded on next boot.
Hope that helps.

-Jason

I'd welcome any constructive advice.
>
> Adam Bogacki,
> afb at paradise.net.nz
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