On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Jeroen Pulles wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Just some loosely connected thoughts: > > (1) Have you tried, as root: > insmod dmasound > to install the sound driver module into the kernel. > It wasn't installed by default in the system I installed last week. (Or do a > lsmod.)
dmasound is installed (listed as unused). > (2) Is the user you're running in the 'audio' group? That seemed to be the problem. I added myself to the 'audio' group and I can play mp3's now. I had to re-learn how to add myself to that group. Took a few tries with 'man' to figure it out. > (3) If you did install OSS: Try and find libao.so. (a) is it on your system, > by default it will be in /usr/local/lib IIRC, (b) is /usr/local/lib in your > /etc/ld.so.conf? What does OSS give you? I'm a little fuzzy about all of the different audio stuff out there - OSS, ALSA, etc. Is there a good web page for all of this stuff out there? -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)
