Re: /dev/dsp

["Mouammer H. Rayes" <banggae@fisika.ui.ac.id>]

kata  Antony Gelberg
> 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?
>
Just do:

#adduser "username" audio

goodluck!!!



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