about the time wasted. But then, Microsoft is the
greater evil... so back to pounding out this
wheel.
Seve.
-Original Message-
From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
The time consumed and difficulty of just setting up the sound alone should scare
away any
chance of Linux spreading worldwide. Must it be this difficult? The average Joe
doesn't
have time to reinvent the wheel when all he wants to do is drive off in a new car.
I will second this recommendation. You can try it out before you buy it
to make sure it works. I have succeeded in getting most of the sound
things to work (including KDE CD Player, RealPlayer G2 and playing .MID
and .WAV files) , but not UMP with Netscape. If anyone can help with
that I would
I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me:
"kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer
device..."
What should I do now? How do you get permission? Or is it because the driver is not
present?
Seve
ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device?
I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer #
I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer
How would you interpret this?
also...
lsmod # do you see anything
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me:
"kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer
device..."
What should I do now? How do you get permission? Or is it because the driver is
PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Sound setup help needed
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I'm trying to get some sound but every time I hit the Mixer button... it tells me:
"kmix. could not open mixer. perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer
device..."
What should I do now? How
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
ls -l /dev/mixer # do you have sufficient access to the device?
I entered: ls -l /dev/mixer #
I get: crw-rw-rw 1 root root 14, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/mixer
c tells it's a character device
r read access for owner
w write access
