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Re: driver configuration (sound)



On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 12:04:21AM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I used apt-get to install kernel-image-2.2.20 and then 
> 2.2.20-idepci.  Neither one seemed to have the sound drivers.  Got lots of 
> warning messages when I installed the idepci one, then it seemed as though I 
> couldn't go back to the original one.  (You can tell I'm not sure what I was 
> doing here!)  Good experience, though.  I figured I would re-install anyway, 
> which I did last night.  I used the vanilla kernel as you suggested, and now 
> I have the es1370 driver!  Still no sound, though.  I'm getting a message:
> 
> Error while initializing sound driver  device /dev/dsp can't be opened 
> (permission denied)  
> 
> Any thoughts?  Will search for this in documentation...

This is a fairly common one.  It would probably work as root.  Try
adding your user to the group audio, then logging out and logging back
in again.

- Chris



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