Staring Gnome ???

[Glyn Millington <glyn@glyn.uklinux.net>]

Greetings!   I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17.  And I can't
start Gnome!  I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and
have tried 
exec gnome-session 
in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in
reposne is an X stuck at the corss-hatched screen and when I
Ctrl-Alt-BckSpc a little message saying

/dev/dsp  no such device

Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp.......

Can anyone shed some light on this?

TIA

Glyn M


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