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Name: James Smyth
Date: October 25, 2001 at 16:01:42 Pacific
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When I try to load Quake 3, it trys to
launch sound and crashes and says
"/dev/dsp/ no such file or directory

What is wrong? How can I fix it?

Thank you



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Name: leviathan
Date: December 15, 2001 at 21:33:43 Pacific
Reply:

What distro are you using? Mandrake?

I had the same problem with Mandrake 8.1.
It turns out that the dsp device is actually
at /dev/sound/dsp rather than /dev/dsp.

What you need to do is make a symbolic link
to the right device so that quake3 can find
it. As root execute the following command:

ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp

and you should be good to go.

See you in the arena!

Leviathan


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