No sound at all with kde

[Rick Miles]

I see this mesage on new installs of slackware and if you have the same 
problem it's easy to fix.

Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. It may be that you will have to change your 
permissions to give users access. /dev/dsp is actually a symlinc 
to /dev/sound so you'll need to change that permission too.

 

Lorenzo La Spada is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> Hi,
> I installed kde some weeks ago, all is working fine now except the
> sound. I have no sound at all and yes Arts is installed (but maybe
> not well configured?).
>
> When trying to activate the sound system in kcontrol>sound system, I
> have this message:
>
> Error while initializing the sound driver
> Couldn't connect to server
> The sound server will continue, using the null output device
>
> I'm not sure to understand what it means. I have no idea what I
> should do I didn't find any helpful hint in the kde home page.
>
> Do someone know how to enable sound?
> Please help me to configure kde to have sound.
>
> My configuration:
> -----------------------
> mac ibook ppc g4
> kde 3.5.3 installed with fink
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Cheers,

Rick Miles

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