Re: /dev/dsp

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:52:39PM -0500, mustafa taha al-shawaf wrote:
> Hey group.
> 
> I get an error when starting up kde that says that sound cannot be
> initialized because it cannot open /dev/dsp.  I tried looking for a man
> page on dsp but there wasn't any.  I assume that it has something to do
> with the file permissions on /dev/dsp and that all I have to do is to use
> chmod on the file, but I don't want to mess anything up.  I have included
> an ls -l of /dev/dsp*.
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14  2002 dsp
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  19 Mar 14  2002 dsp1
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  35 Mar 14  2002 dsp2
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  51 Mar 14  2002 dsp3
> 
> MA
> 

Is your username in the audio group?

A