sound on kde3

[Tim Wunder]

Previously, Keith Antoine chose to write:
> Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> couldn't auto detect which audio I/O method to use
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
> I get this on login to kde3, which has altered permissions on the driver,
> it works fine as root. I am guessing that its /dev/dsp but being that this
> is Mandrake 8.1 and it uses devfs ? First up how can I tell which driver
> its talking about and can I change it like I used to with a std /dev/xxx.

There were blurbs on a kde newsgroup about this today (comp.os.x.kde??? 
something like that -- I don't have newsgroups at home, just at work)

You also might find something at dot.kde.org, I think there were mentions of 
this there. Did you use Mandrake RPMs?

Tim

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