Hasso Tepper has made /dev/audio a symlink to /dev/dsp. DragonFly’s sound device hasn’t been /dev/audio in a while, but until recently in pkgsrc, applications that used audio would default to /dev/audio for playback. With this symlink, they all should work – or at least not be directing sound to a nonexistent device.
This isn’t dramatic news, but I can never remember which device is the right one, and this fixes that little issue for me.
Tangential to this, if anyone is not yet aware of the OpenBSD “aucat” work, it is probably worth following:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081027151344
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081120152718
I was hoping Pulse might bring some sanity to UNIX audio, but having tried to use it (in Ubuntu 8.04), I’m still not sure how far it’s baked.