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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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