Have you gotten the OS to recognize your sound card? This is a possible
cause for the error you got (I had the same problem a while back).
Run 'sndconfig' (I think that's the correct command) to configure your
soundcard.
DvB
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ingo Bauer wrote:
> Good afternoon all
>
> I think I broke my mixer(kmix) this morning and following the instructions
>
> [root@firefight /dev]# /usr/bin/kmix
> kmix: Could not open mixer.
> Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device.
> Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access.
> [root@firefight /dev]# chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*
> [root@firefight /dev]# /usr/bin/kmix
> kmix: Could not open mixer.
> Perhaps you have no permission to access the mixer device.
> Login as root and do a 'chmod a+rw /dev/mixer*' to allow the access.
> [root@firefight /dev]#
>
> The error still hangs around .....
>
> what are the properties for the mixer entries in /dev
>
> Thank you
>
> Ingo
