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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich
Sent: 08 November 1999 14:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] Where's the Sound?
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Thanks John and Seve. I ran sndconfig; It said it didn't find any PNP
devices, even though I
> have a standard Sound Blaster Pro PNP card. But I was able to select it
from the list, which
> contained 3 entrys for SB. It tested the card, and it was able to play
sound clips. The mixer
> program now runs, but sound still doesn't work in Xwin. In KDE & Genome,
when I try to setup
> system sounds, nothing happens. The default beep test button only makes
the simple internal
> pc-speaker respond. Yet, when the system starts, it starts the sound
server and the speakers
> make a brief pop sound. So I tried the "chmod a +rw /dev/mixer" command in
the terminal, and
> it said "invalid mode". Any ideas? I can't think of anything else to try.
Thanks.
>
Did you try the chmod as root? If not, it won't work.
John
The command should be:
chmod a+rw /dev/mixer
Note that "a+rw" has no spaces in it!
