[BRLTTY] how to switch pcm tune device to alsa

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Oct 28 10:27:44 EDT 2015


[quoted lines by Chris Moore on 2015/10/28 at 09:14 -0400]

>I’m trying to use the pcm tune device.  I get the error attempting to open /dev/dsp.  My linux system uses alsa and doesn’t have the /dev/dsp device.
>How can I direct brltty to use alsa.

/dev/dsp is part of OSS - not ALSA. Wen you configured brltty, it must've not 
detected ALSA. If so, that's most likely because you don't have the ALSA 
development package (maybe alsa-devel or alsa-dev) installed.

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