How do I get sound and a CDROM in Slack 8?

DiscoStoo · 03-10-2002, 12:36 AM

When I installed Slackware 8 it didn't create any devices for my sound card or my CDROM, and I was wondering how I could get those. Actually I got the CDROM to work once, all the sudden when I booted there were the /dev/hdc devices, but it never worked again after that. Sound I've never been able to get to work. I'm from a Mandrake background here, so I don't know how to do this crap by hand yet.

DiscoStoo · 03-10-2002, 01:44 AM

Ok, I figured out why the devices weren't being created, it was a devfs problem. I fixed that and now I can mount my cdrom, but I'm still having sound troubles. /dev/dsp is there, and when I cat stuff to it I hear sounds, but xmms and other apps say they "can't open /dev/dsp". Any ideas anybody?

jrbush82 · 03-10-2002, 02:00 AM

as root, type:

chmod 666 /dev/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/mixer
chmod 666 /dev/audio

should work as user now

DiscoStoo · 03-10-2002, 11:48 AM

Okay, that did the trick, thanks. Now I've got sound running with the enlightened sound daemon, but it's pretty crappy sounding, and it makes the sound delayed by almost a second. That CAN'T be normal...