Re: Staring Gnome ???
At 10:52 AM 9/7/2000 +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
>
>Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp.......
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
i believe the dsp is the digital sound processor
can you log an as root?
have you added your user to the "audio" group?
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