<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Bogacki</b> <<a href="mailto:afb@paradise.net.nz">afb@paradise.net.nz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br> I booted up my Debian unstable distro today only to find<br>the cursor static in center of screen and no sound.<br><br> Upon checking, the hardware is OK, but I cannot find<br>/dev/mouse as specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Mplayer gives
<br>me the message</blockquote><div><br>
/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.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"audio setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: no such device"<br><br>
Upon checking, /dev/dsp proves to be missing.<br><br>What is happening here ? Is this part of some unstable apt-upgrade/update<br>transition ? Have others had the same problem ?</blockquote><div><br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
</div>Hope that helps.<br>
<br>
-Jason<br>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'd welcome any constructive advice.<br><br>Adam Bogacki,<br><a href="mailto:afb@paradise.net.nz">
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