Re: sound

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On 16 Aug 2001 15:19:55 -0400, Bob Koss wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Michael> Try logging out and logging back in.
> 
> Didn't work. But while I was at the non-X bash prompt, I tried firing
> up mpg123 and that gave a better error message. The problem is
> /dev/dsp.
> 
> 
> rskoss is in group audio and /dev/dsp has rw set for group audio.

Hmmmm.  What does /proc/modules show?  Does /dev/sndstat or /proc/sound
give any usefull info?  What type of soundcard do you have?  Is an esd
process running at the moment which will have grabbed the soundcard?

--mike