Problems with sound

Andreas Schwab mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:09:20 +0100


Niklaus Giger <ngiger@mus.ch> writes:

|> Hi
|> I enjoy using MacOnLinux. On my Powerbook everything is okay, but on my
|> PowerMac I have problems using sound.
|> Sound under KDE is no problem. But everytime I call startmol I cannot
|> hear the startboing and I have the following error in my mol.0.log
|> ----> Sound Disabled. Failed to open /dev/dsp
|> But ls -axl /dev/dsp gives me the following output
|> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/dsp
|> As I didn't find any hint via Google or in the archive I try to post to
|> mailing list.
|> 
|> What could be the problem?

You are probably not a member of the audio group.

Andreas.

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