What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp? You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active. Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended. Sasha
> - KDE now start ok > - /dev/null on reboot is now crw-rw-rw, which is ok > - /de/vdsp on reboot is now crw-rw-rw > - konsole now works > > There are two remaining problems > > - Sound, whenever kde starts I get an error with /dev/dsp. Is it work > changing the owner from root:audio to <user>:audio? > - Kmail keeps crashing, and whilst showing mail subjects ok will not > show the mail bodies. > > All fun and games! > > Simon > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:37 +0000, James wrote: > >>Simon Windsor <simon.windsor <at> cornfield.org.uk> writes: >> >> >> >>>I have just built KDE, version 3.4.1, and it is not starting properly. >>> >>>I have >>> >>>- disabled IP6 tests - it now faster to start >>>- chmod 666 /dev/null allows kdm to start, otherwise startkde reports >>>errors >>>- chmod 660 /dev/dsp to grant access to users in audio group >>> >>>After all this, kde starts, but I still get errors with /dev/dsp. >> >>Well, I'm not sure of your KDE versus /dev/dsp issues, so I'll >>remind you about checking rc.conf. It change a while back, but >>mine still has these settings: >> >>DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" >> >>SESSION="kde-3.4.1" >> >>The system boots into KDE just fine. I'm not sure if the SESSION >>setting in rc.conf is deprecated now or not.... >> >>Before running 'env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update' >> >>I look at the proposed list of updates to config files that >>etc-update wants to perform. If I have a question about the >>files to be updated, I make a backup of the file with the current >>date appended. That way, you can recover config files >>or look at them over time to see how they have changed. >>/etc/rc.conf is a good example.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
