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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OSS problems
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 12:21:55 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: David Myers <myers@iname.com>
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David Myers wrote:
> 
> Having never gotten the Voxware sound drivers to work with my generic
> SoundBlaster compatible board, I decided to give the 4Front folks a chance
> and installed OSS.  Everything appears to be fine: the software recognizes
> my sound board, installs correctly, 'soundon' appears to run fine.
> However, I still can't play any sound files.  Every time I try, I get the
> message:
> 
> /dev/dsp: Device not configured.

Did you remove all the audio devices before you loaded oss?  It doesn't
use the same major/minor numbers as voxware and you're almost certainly
trying to use a voxware device entry with OSS here.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.