sound in Gnome 2

[Omega81]

hello,

my gnome2 installation on Debian (woody) doesn't give me any sound. After investigating it further i noticed that esd is not running as a demond and when i try to start it, it says "it can't find dev/dsp" . my sound card is using the ALSA emu10k1 drivers which I build into my 2.6.1 kernal. I have updated the ALSA utils to the latest and stil nothing has chaned. Does anyone know how I can solve this problem.

thank you.

[mdwatts]

Moved to the Software forum.

You did not tell us if '/dev/dsp' exists.

ls -al /dev/dsp*

Lots and lots of previous threads on /dev/dsp problems in particular ones on permissions.

[Omega81]

Sorry, yes it does and so does /dev/adsp0...3 (I think these are the alsa drivers. but when ever I run esd -d /dev/adsp0 or -d /dev/dsp, it says the device doesn't exits.

any ideas

[mdwatts]

If the devices in /dev do exist and it still says they cannot be found, then it's a permission problem.

One more time ...

Add the user to the audio group (preferable)

Change the permissions

chmod 666 /dev/dsp

chmod 666 /dev/audio

chmod 666 /dev/mixer

As I previously suggested, search the JL forums for i.e. 'dsp permission' to find plenty of other threads on the same problem.

[Omega81]

I have changed the permissions and added the user to the group but it still don't work and esd still say no /dev/dsp : no such device even though it exist. any other ideas. I have done a search but they don't appear to have the same problem as me.