Great. Thanks a lot: this pointed me in the right direction. I
couldn't actually run MAKEDEV dsp, but I had a look at MAKEDEV, and
found MAKEDEV audio worked ok. I've got the default permissions, and
added myself to audio group using
adduser <username> audio
as root, and this worked fine.
Cheers
Rich
Graham Ashton wrote:
>
> On Friday 26 March, Richard Harran wrote:
>
> > OK, I replying to myself. I didn't select /dev/dsp as one of the sound
> > options in the kernel. Now I've sorted this, I still have a problem: I
> > can't use /dev/dsp, because it doesn't exist. What should have created
> > this, and how do I fix it?
>
> cool. try this;
>
> cd /dev
> ./MAKEDEV dsp
>
> mine looks like this;
>
> humbug% ll /dev/dsp
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 21 1998 /dev/dsp
>
> I think the default permissions are crw-rw----, but I couldn't access it as a
> user that way (and putting me in the audio group didn't work).
>
> anybody got any ideas why that is?
>
> --
> Graham
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