Sound Server Problems

majesticsock · 08-12-2003, 02:13 PM

The soundserver said I didn't have access privileges under my user to run it, so I went through an old post on linuxquestions.org which had me do the following:

# chown :audio /dev/dsp

and then

# adduser <your unprivileged username> audio

I did that and it said it accepted the user, but now when I restart,
it gives me this error message:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened, no such device

I'm not really sure as to how to fix this, can anyone help?

johnMG · 08-12-2003, 08:58 PM

Not sure how helpful this is, but mine looks like:

Code:

$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp

majesticsock · 08-12-2003, 09:20 PM

Mine says the exact same, so I'm not sure what to do...

johnMG · 08-13-2003, 12:01 PM

Did you set up the loading of your sound-related modules with modconf?

I'd originally set up my sound by-hand using instructions found on the net. Then later, I wanted to try out modconf so I:

removed the /etc/modutils/sound file I'd created,
removed what I'd added to /etc/modules,
re-ran ...erm.. I think it was update-modules (?),
rmmod'ed whatever sound-related modules were installed, and
ran modconf

and it worked fine that way too. [shrug]

majesticsock · 08-13-2003, 07:49 PM

Thanks for the suggestions.
I tried running modconf and I couldn't find any sound drivers to add to the kernal though.

johnMG · 08-14-2003, 10:29 AM

Right. The point of my suggestion was, maybe you initially configured your sound by-hand -- if you undo those changes you originally made, and then let modconf redo it for you, you might get something different in the end.