On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:32, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > after starting kde3 I always get the following message : > > Sound server informational message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver : > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device > > and that is, what a ls -al /dev/dsp shows : > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Sep 27 16:02 dsp -> sound/dsp > > is there an eror on the rights ?
Probably not. It is more likely that another sound app is grabbing /dev/dsp before KDE can get it. (such as EsounD.) Verify that that is not the case. It may not be EsounD. Check for other sound related stuff. The first place I would look would be with the "chkconfig" command. > thanks a lot for helping > bye hans > > ---- Good Luck, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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