Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[Jaya Kumar]

On Jan 21, 2008 1:30 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This thread started because 1) ALSA is awful, 2) There is no OSS
> emulation in the XO which breaks some programs, and 3) IMO, I would
> love if we could seriously discuss switching OSS for ALSA.  See, ALSA
> is a worse standard for audio in Linux.
>

Hi,

Please forgive me if I've misunderstood anything. But I believe the
thread started because Arjun was looking for the oss compatibility
/dev/ entries. As James Cameron pointed out, that is solved by loading
ALSA's snd-pcm-oss which is loaded by default on most systems.

I'm sure everyone participating and volunteering their time on this
are trying to make this project more successful. After all, we all
want better audio on Linux. So I think it'd be better if we could
discuss specific problems and issues rather than making broad
characterizations on particular implementations.

If you have found bugs or problems or enhancement requests with the
overall audio implementation on the OLPC, from apps all the way down
to the drivers, please share the trac ticket numbers and initiate
discussion around that. I think that'd be a great way to improve
things.

Thanks,
jaya