On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't > start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and > have tried > exec gnome-session > in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in > reposne is an X stuck at the corss-hatched screen and when I > Ctrl-Alt-BckSpc a little message saying > > /dev/dsp no such device
That is the audio device. Do this: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV dsp and it should create the device; also add yourself to the audio group. In the meantime, if the device is not configured, doesn't matters, but gnome should start then. Bye > > Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp....... > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > TIA > > Glyn M > > > -- > ****************************************************** > * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * > * Douglas Hoftstatder * > ****************************************************** > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net