Re: What's /dev/dsp device?
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> > When I accessed a particular www server with Netscape, it
> > tried to open /dev/dsp (unsuccessfully). What's /dev/dsp?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Art
>
> I believe it's a sound device (like /dev/audio). The server must have been
> trying to play you a sound file. If you don't have sound enabled in your
> kernel, it won't work, obviously ;-]
And if you do, you need to add the user to the audio group.
Bob
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