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 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
