On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:56:45AM +1000, thus spake John Griffiths:
> At 10:52 AM 9/7/2000 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> >
> >Greetings! I'm running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17. And I can't
> >start Gnome! I'm starting X from the command line (startx) and
> >have tried
> >exec gnome-session
> >in my .xinitrc and even in an .Xsession file, but all I get in
> >reposne is an X stuck at the corss-hatched screen and when I
> >Ctrl-Alt-BckSpc a little message saying
> >
> >/dev/dsp no such device
> >
> >Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp.......
> >
> >Can anyone shed some light on this?
> >
>
> i believe the dsp is the digital sound processor
> can you log an as root?
>
> have you added your user to the "audio" group?
Many thanks! The answer is yes to both! Adding to the audio
group did the trick.
TVM
Glyn
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