11/19/2008
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.

1Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on Nov 21, 2008 at 4:45 pm:
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.