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Re: can't find /dev/dsp ?



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On Friday 15 October 2004 02:49 pm, belahcene abdelkader wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed the sarge vesrion on my PC, with an isa ,
> ess sound card , the knoppix (RH ) found it without
> problem,
> deb-sarge gives the error can't read /dev/dsp ? I
> checked it , it exists I add also the permission o+rw
> to /dev/dsp .  The sound still not running ? how
> activate it , please

don't change permissions. 
o+rw can be a catastrophic. simply add the normal user to the audio group

adduser username audio

log out and log in back. it should work.
Note: If using kernel 2.6.x , might be you'd also require to load the 
snd-pcm-oss module.

rrs
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