Re: /dev/dsp

[Thomas Peri <ispleen@mac.com>]

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
rtc                     1792   0  (autoclean)

After seeing your previous post, I'm not sure I *want* alsa installed. 
I'd rather not be the one to find out whether it does the same thing on 
a G4.  :)

Thanks for any help you can offer though.

Thomas

Laurent wrote:

> What's the lsmod output looks like? Do you have ALSA installed? I've 
> been going to the whole mambo of mucking around with sound last night 
> (see previous post), so maybe I can help.
>
> LdS
>
> Thomas Peri wrote:
>
> > 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



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