Hi Paul,
I tried your suggestions and still no luck - I don't even know where to look next
- maybe re-install 7.02 and see what settings are in place - seems overkill. Not
having system sounds is certainly not a show-stopper, but its aggravating !
BTW, you have a great website
cheers,
philomena
Paul wrote:
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, philomena wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough, my system suffers from the same deficiency.
>
> I have to do a "chmod a+rw /dev" for /mixer, /dsp and /midi, as well as a
> chmod 666 for the cdrom's music options everytime I boot the system. I
> slapped them in .bashrc for root, since I always (on purpose set this
> up) have to log in as root to activate the ISDN dial-up. That way it
> always gets set up when I start things.
>
> I guess I can put them in rc.local also, but sometimes when changing from
> X to other consoles (alt-f...) and back, the sound options get messed up
> again. Then I log in as root again, exit that login, pop back to X
> (alt-f7) and things are fine again.
>
> Paul
>
> >Tried that and no good. There are a few odd things now - when running
> >sndconfig and the sample sound is attempted, an error is displayed about not
> >accessing /dev/audio. I checked the permissions and it was set to root/sys. I
> >changed it to root/audio and also root/root - made no difference. Same
> >problem happens now when I try to run kmixer - trouble accessing /dev/mixer.
> >Changing the permissions 'seem' to help - at least mixer will run, but then,
> >if I reboot - it all goes back to how it was. When running the sound config
> >tool in Drakconf/Hardware, the test sound will play, but when clicking OK, an
> >error message is displayed about accessing the directory you mentioned -
> >/dev/dsp, even after your suggested change. Also, if in the KDE Control
> >Center I try to display system information about sound, nothing is listed for
> >any of the devices. I figure the driver has to be OK if CDs play, but I don't
> >know where to look for this .wav problem, especially since all was fine in
> >7.02. I can't seem to find documentation about trouble-shooting sound
> >problems.
> >
> >thx,
> >philomena
> >
> >Paul wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 29 May 2000, philomena wrote:
> >>
> >> Try this one (as root):
> >>
> >> chmod a+rw /dev/dsp
>
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