/dev/dsp missing?

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Anyone know what this means? I have sound working everywhere except my favorite game, UT2004…

patti@dtop-opensuse:~> ut2004
open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file or directory
patti@dtop-opensuse:~>

I installed all the openal stuff I could find in packman, along with some mixers. What really bugs me is the malformed “open” statement!!

THANKS!!!
patti

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Means we are in 2012 and the Linux sound system is ALSA/PulseAudio, not OSS.
Use “padsp ut2004”, “aoss ut2004” if you don’t use PulseAudio or, if everything fails, load the kernel ALSA OSS emulation modules (in the later case be prepared to loss the sound on the rest of the system while playing the game).

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I don’t know what RedDwarf is saying so I am not contradicting it, but you can do this:

Put this in ⁄etc⁄init.d⁄boot.local for a dsp module in /dev and oss sound at boot:

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

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That would be

if everything fails, load the kernel ALSA OSS emulation modules (in the later case be prepared to loss the sound on the rest of the system while playing the game).