/dev/dsp not available breaks many apps

[Alexander Poslavsky]

If /dev/dsp is not available, in my case it is because /dev/dsp is used by my
tv-card, my sound card uses /dev/dsp1, many things brake:
* Gnome does not boot up correctly, bonobo-activation needs to be killed, then
it starts.
* Rhytmbox has no sound
* Realplayer has no sound etc.
For some apps you can repair this by setting sound to use /dev/dsp1, but others
just do not work (eg realplayer)

/dev/dsp should always be the active sound-card

[Alexander Poslavsky (alexander-poslavsky)]

this might be the same as bug# 8594 and 1943

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8678.