On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:08:11 -0500, "Raymond Norton" <admin at lctn.org>
said:
> In Ubuntu, my sound device was located at /dev/dsp, but this is not found 
> in Debian Lenny. Any idea how to get it to show up there, or what other 
> path might be used instead?

I would check this in Gentoo by doing the following:
Check in the /proc/asound directory to see whether the kernel modules
found the devices.
Check in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules for the node assignment of the
dsp device.