Re: [Sheflug] Sound driver

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19:22 18/09/02 +0100, Darrell Blake wrote:
>Are you running slackware? It's a problem I always have when I first install
>slackware and try to log in to kde as a normal user. I think you'll find that
>if you log in as root the sound will play ok. All I did then to get it to
>work for a normal user is "chmod 777 /dev/dsp". Oh and make sure you have the
>correct module loaded too (just in case you didn't know).

I got that problem with a clean install of KDE3/SuSE8.0. The problem turned 
out to be a bug with SuSE not properly configuring the CMI8330 h/w that was 
on the m/b.

If you think this might also be your problem, there's a fix at 
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_cmi8330_kernelsnd.html


Steve

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