I've just installed woody new-powermac on my G4, and most things are
working nicely. I'm stuck on getting sound to work, though.
Upon login to KDE, I was told that permission had been denied for
/dev/dsp. I happily ignored it for the time being, and installed
fluxbox, since I don't really care for KDE or Gnome. After I'd been
using it for a while, it occurred to me that sound wasn't working here
either. So I tried running xmms, and got the following error immediately:
libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I don't know whether that's related. But when I tried to play
something, I got a message similar to the one KDE had given:
** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp):
Permission denied
...so I checked permissions:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 02:11 /dev/dsp
...added myself to group audio, tried playing in xmms again, and got the
same error. So just for fun, I changed the permissions to
world-read-writable:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 02:11 /dev/dsp
...and tried playing in xmms again. This time I got a new error:
** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No
such device
I don't know where to go from here. Can someone help please?
Thanks
Thomas Peri