On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Matt Thompson wrote: > > I have a fully upgraded hamm system. I upgrade with dselect almost daily. > > I recently tried to use my scanner under GIMP and it said: > > > > Failed to open device 'umax:/dev/scanner' invalid argument. > > > > A day or so later I tried to play a RealAudio feed, but it said 'Cannot > > open audio device'. Just as a test, I tried xanim on a .wav file, and it > > said 'Can't open /dev/dsp device'. <snip> > Did you check /dev to see if these devices were actually present? If > they > are not there re-run MAKEDEV. 'MAKEDEV audio' will recreate the /dev/dsp > device. Look in /etc/devinfo for info on what keyword to use with MAKEDEV > for creating /dev/scanner. Have you changed kernels since the last time > they worked? Maybe your kernel setup is wrong. > > > -- > Ed > Man, do I feel like a dork! I did a ls -l on the two /dev's and they're there, but for some reason the permissions have changed. Root is able to open them just fine. *sigh* I guess I still don't research things as well as I should before posting to the list.
Thanks loads for the help, Ed :) Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
