Thus spake Marcelo Chiapparini: > Hi! > > I've just installed potato 2.2r4 in a new system. After installed the gnome > stuff (task-gnome-desktop) and after created a /etc/X11/XF86Config file with > anXious, I can't load the gnome desktop. I get: > > ~$ gnome-session > /dev/dsp: Permission denied > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > SESSION_MANAGER=local/nostromo:/tmp/.ICE-unix/183,tcp/nostromo:1025 > /dev/dsp: Permission denied > > Gt-_WARNING **: cannot open display > > > if I run gnome-session as root I get the same message, changing "Permission > denied" by "No such device". But the /dev/dsp device already exists! > > What am I doing wrong? Any help will be very appreciated... > > TIA > > Marcelo It seems to me that something didn't get set up properly in the sound part of your box. Do other apps play sound? (mpg123, etc.) If not, and you do indeed have a functional sound card, you may have to play with MAKEDEV in the /dev directory - or on second thought, do you have devfs on that box? It can play havoc with programs that expect a certain device name if the symlinks aren't set up. Hmmm . . . Report back with: ls -l /dev/dsp (the sound device) dmesg | grep -i audio (looking for sound card at boot) anything else that seems relevant. Steve -- The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
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