Re: kde2 sound problem
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bruce Miller wrote: > Daniel has the right idea. You need to add the user to the ``audio" > group. > /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). > > but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx hm.. surely it should be crw-rw lrwxrwxrwx suggests it's a symlink to something else (perhaps /dev/dsp0.. it depends on how your distribution creates character devices). so it's the group of what it's pointing to that really matters.
Re: kde2 sound problem
Daniel has the right idea. You need to add the user to the ``audio" group. On 9 Oct 2001, at 19:34, Tom Allison wrote: Date forwarded: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Date sent: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:34:45 -0400 From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: kde2 sound problem Forwarded by: debian-kde@lists.debian.org I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well kde started again. But it threw an interesting error: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx bleah!
Re: kde2 sound problem
> I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. > > I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well > kde started again. > But it threw an interesting error: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). > > but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx So it looks like /dev/dsp is a symbolic link to something else. Have a look at the permissions on the file that it is pointing to, that should show you the problem. Probably you need to add yourself to the "audio" group. Are you using devfs? - Daniel -- ** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
kde2 sound problem
I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well kde started again. But it threw an interesting error: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx bleah!
