On Thursday 27 January 2005 22:22, Jeff Camp wrote: > Thanks for the info, Bob. I spent some time scouring the internet > this morning looking for soundmodem info. I downloaded > soundmodem-0.9-1.i386.rpm and installed it, but now I'm getting the > following error message when I try to start it up: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ax25]# soundmodem -v 9 > sm[1855]: x86 CPU capability 0383f9ff, MMX enabled > sm[1855]: mkiss: ifname sm0 mtu 256 hwaddr N0WJP-15 ipaddr 10.0.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > sm[1855]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp" > sm[1855]: audio: Error, cannot open "/dev/dsp" > sm[1855]: cannot start audio > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ax25]# > > > /dev/dsp exists. The sound card is a sound blaster compatible. > Anyone have an idea what these error mean? I'm not sure exactly > where to start on this one.
Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. On my system they look like this: budr$ ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 19 2003 /dev/dsp budr$ I had to add myself to the audio group in /etc/group before I could use /dev/dsp. HTH es 73, -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KD5SZ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
