> I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. > > I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well > kde started again. > But it threw an interesting error: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). > > but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx
So it looks like /dev/dsp is a symbolic link to something else. Have a look at the permissions on the file that it is pointing to, that should show you the problem. Probably you need to add yourself to the "audio" group. Are you using devfs? - Daniel -- ****************************************************************************** * Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering * University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************************
