sound on kde3

[Keith Antoine]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 08:56 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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)

Do not go near newsgroups myself.

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

Yes I did use the 8.1 rpms. Thanks for that i'll check at dot.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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