Hi, thanks a lot for reply. > Do you have alsa support in you kernel? > Also, is alsasound running? > I'm not sure if I have Alsa support. I don't know how to check that. I thought the the fink installation would provide all the required support to enable sound. How do I check for that? > 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 must say that I am not familliar with all this, I a new unix user. Could you please tell me how do I check and change the permissions? Should I have a file named dsp? I found a lot of stuff in the /dev directory but no dsp, sound or symlinc files. I'm sorry to ask naive questions, could you tell me more on how to proceed? Thank you > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:23:13 +0200 > From: "A.J. Venter" <aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: No sound at all with kde > To: kde@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <200606132023.13979.aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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 ? > ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.