Yeah I tried it as root. Any other possibilities? Thanks.
At 11/8/1999 9:52:00 AM you wrote:
>On Mon, 08 Nov 1999, you wrote:
>> Thanks John and Seve. I ran sndconfig; It said it didn't find any PNP devices, even
>though I
>> have a standard Sound Blaster Pro PNP card. But I was able to select it from the
>list, which
>> contained 3 entrys for SB. It tested the card, and it was able to play sound clips.
>The mixer
>> program now runs, but sound still doesn't work in Xwin. In KDE & Genome, when I
>try to setup
>> system sounds, nothing happens. The default beep test button only makes the simple
>internal
>> pc-speaker respond. Yet, when the system starts, it starts the sound server and the
>speakers
>> make a brief pop sound. So I tried the "chmod a +rw /dev/mixer" command in the
>terminal, and
>> it said "invalid mode". Any ideas? I can't think of anything else to try. Thanks.
>>
>Did you try the chmod as root? If not, it won't work.
> John
