On 2000-10-23 14:48, m.nine.six wrote: >Russell Coker wrote: >> Thanks for that information. I have (finally) installed ALSA on my >> Thinkpad and I get the following in my dmesg output when I try playing >> (and it gives an error "Can't open /dev/dsp". I am using the latest ALSA >> Debian packages (0.5.9d-1) in kernel 2.4.0-test9. I would appreciate it >> if you (or anyone else) has any more advice on this issue. Reverting to >> 2.2.x kernels is not an option on this machine (I need the latest ReiserFS >> and devfs). > >you should be in the `audio' user group. > > usermod -G <other grous>,audio <user name> > >and then make the /dev/dsp0 (because /dev/dsp is a link) writeable to >the audio group. > > chown root.audio /dev/dsp0 > chmod 660 /dev/dsp0
I use devfs so the /dev/sound/dsp is created automatically for me. I had also created the sym-link from /dev/sound/dsp to /dev/dsp. Open failed doesn't necessarily mean that there is no /dev/dsp device or that permissions are wrong. It can also mean that there's some error in the device driver than prevents opening it (which is what is happening for me). I checked all the obvious things... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
