RE: /dev/dsp
I normally do a chmod 777 /dev/dsp and it works fine, might be a
security violation though...not sure...
-----Original Message-----
From: mustafa taha al-shawaf [mailto:alshawaf@students.uiuc.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 6:59 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /dev/dsp
Thanks for the help I got it working.
MA
> 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
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