sound

[jarves 0]

i have a problem with my sounds in debian

when i boot to debian, after loging in a message would pop up saying that /dev/dsp is not found or something. what shall i do?

[danleff 0]

Did you just update the kernel or alsa? If not and this is a fresh installation, you need to add yourself to the audio group. Try this;

 

Go to a console, as root user. Type in;

 

adduser USER_NAME audio

 

So, to add myself to the group audio, I would do;

 

adduser danleff audio

 

Log off and back on again and see if this worked.

[jarves 0]

i tried it already but everytime i logged in as root or any account i always get that error.

[danleff 0]

Take a look at the sound faq on the Debian wiki. This may help.

 

Remember, if you updated the kernel, you must reinstall alsa, which I assume you are using. Which version of Debian are you using? Sarge...?