On Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:07, Rick Miles wrote: > I see this mesage on new installs of slackware and if you have the same > problem it's easy to fix. > > Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. It may be that you will have to change > your permissions to give users access. /dev/dsp is actually a symlinc > to /dev/sound so you'll need to change that permission too. > I'm dealing with something similiar, but something is odd here, firstly it happens only on some cards, and not all the time either. And of course since /dev/sound is a DIRECTORY and /dev/dsp is meant to be a file... isn't THAT the problem ? Shouldn't udev configs be modified so it's symlinked to /dev/sound/dsp instead ? A.J. -- "there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor" - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.