Description of problem: On a freshly loaded RH8 system with a soundblaster live card, the install creates a dsp device with major,minor of 14,3 which won't take input but will produce output so I think it is actually the microphone. I did get output after renaming dsp to dsp0 then linking dsp1 to dsp. Also there should be a second dsp with output because the Soundblaster Live has 4 speakers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I reloaded twice while testing and verifying and it is repeatable. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just load the OS. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: This is what it looks like after my changes: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 17 00:53 dsp -> dsp1 crw------- 1 conrake root 14, 3 Aug 30 19:31 dsp0 crw------- 1 conrake root 14, 19 Aug 30 19:31 dsp1 crw------- 1 conrake root 55, 0 Aug 30 19:31 dsp56k
Um, no. The devices in /dev are correct. Any misfunction of those devices is a driver bug.
Does this machine also have a web cam with microphone input - such as the philiips based ones ?
Yes I have a USB Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000.
Ok what is happening here is that on boot Red Hat finds the USB camera with microphone before the soundblaster live. This makes dsp0 your webcam and dsp1 (which can be opened a ton of times) the emu10k1 hardware This is a known "oops that wasnt very clever of us" problem with the current Red Hat.
Thank you for the insight. It makes sense now.
The USB devices appearing too early bug has an RFE to fix already so I'll close this bug now Thanks for reporting it, sorry you hit it.