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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