Re: Staring Gnome ???
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
>
> 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
That is the audio device. Do this:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV dsp
and it should create the device; also add yourself to the audio
group. In the meantime, if the device is not configured, doesn't
matters, but gnome should start then.
Bye
>
> Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp.......
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> TIA
>
> Glyn M
>
>
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