On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:59:10 -0800 Robert Fargher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a head scratcher. > > My fiance's machine will not play sounds in Mandrake 8.x. Sound works fine > in Windows. Sound worked fine in Mandrake 7.2, same hardware. > > If I install Mandrake 8.x (tried the beta of 8.2 this past weekend), the > install goes fine. It'll boot into her account but throw an error screen > saying that "/dev/dsp" does not exist. I log in as root and find that > /dev/dsp does indeed exist. As root, if I try to play a sound file (eg. > "play /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav"), I get "you do not have permission". I have a "fixsound" script on my site which seems to work for some... feel free to try it and if you find some other "trick", let me know and I'll include it... http://pfortin.com/Linux/LM8.1sound/fixsound Must be run as root; I put it in /usr/local/bin HTH (though no guarantees), Pierre
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