Re: /dev/dsp

[Jeetu Golani <j_golani@softhome.net>]

Hi there,

Please check if your sound drivers have loaded successfully. If you have root 
access then do a cat /dev/dsp from root. You should see a flow of weird 
chars. If it says device not found then your sound modules haven't loaded up. 
If it works fine as root then there's a permission problem probably.

Hope this helps. Good luck

Bye for now



On Saturday 09 Aug 2003 7:47 am, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 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