Matthew Bryant Baxa wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > I used gom as the mixer. When I booted the 2.4.2 kernel (witeh the same > > /etc/modules) and tried to play a song I got this: > > "Cannot open audio device. Please make sure that the audio device is
> > properly configured." > > > > And when I try to use gom I get this: > > > > gom ERROR: Can't open mixer device special file "/dev/mixer": No such > > gom: device. Error help: if loading a mixer special file leads to "No > > such > > gom: device", then you most likely do have the kernel sound driver > > gom: not or incorrectly installed. "Permission denied" means you > > gom: need permissions by the local admin in the first place. > > gom: > > gom: Current channel information > > gom: --------------------------- > > gom: > > gom: No Name Rec Volumes Vol-0 Vol-1 Locked > > gom: 0.vol -1 -1 -1 -1 1 > > .... > > But there is a file named /dev/mixer !!!! > > .... > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 mixer > I used to have this problem until I finally remembered that as a user I didnt have permission to use the mixer device. Try adding yourself to the audio group. I'm already a member of the audio group ! Otherwise I wouldn't be able to play music using the 2.2.17 kernel. Even root gets an error trying to run gom.