i never had that problem, but i have sound working now... just put in my
generic sound blaster, it works just fine.  for some reason the sym
linek to /dev/dsp0 was broken (it pointed to the nonexistant /dev/dsp.0)

works now

--mat

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 02:25, Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> First of all, there was a thread a few days ago about someone not being
> able to get the sound working, I think it was matt. Anyway, I
> reinstalled my system and I had the same problem so I remmember! What I
> have to do in Slackware is add read and write permission for other users
> to /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp  chmod o+rw /dev/mixer and the same for the
> other. I was hopping that this woudl help.
> 
> Why did I reisntall? I have a problem with GIMP and fonts. They are
> jagged/bitmapped. I have check my font path in the XF86config and I do
> not see the problem here it is plus I added a few others from some
> instructions somewhere:
> 
> 
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"          extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"     extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"          extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings"    extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Latin2"       extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"          extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"       extra
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"      extra
> 
> There are some fonts that display ok, namely, courier and charter and
> maybe some other ones but I did not check. Helvetica displays bitmapped
> which I found odd. Everything was working ok as far as I remember. I
> have used GIMP frequently and never had this problem before. I was on a
> different computer though and I do not remmember if I ever did anything
> special which I normally would. It was the slackware also. Well,
> HELPPPPP!
> 
> I am thinking that maybe I just need to install more fonts but I will
> patiently wait for a better or cooler option, particularly because the
> Helvetica is not displaying properly.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alvaro Zuniga
> 
> 
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