Try checking the permissions on /dev/dsp . I was having problems with
esd and decided to verify the files in the dev package, and found that
most of them were wrong, with some being owned by users that hardly use
the system, for some reason.
Jeremy Lunn wrote:
>
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeremy Lunn wrote:
> >
> > > When I installed Mandrake the other day, I was using esdplay from KDE
> > > with no problems... no when I try to use it, it doesn't work... it
> > > doesn't give any errors... it just doesn't do anything... how can it be
> > > fixed?
> >
> > Did you load the sound module?
>
> Yeah, well I ran sndconfig and sound works in some apps.
>
> >
> > > sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known!
> >
> > Known bug.
> > Fix:
> > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/linux/Mandrake/updates/test/RPMS/sox-12.15-7mdk.i586.rpm
> >
> > LLaP
> > bero
>
> --
> Jeremy Lunn
> Melbourne, Australia
> ICQ: 19255837
