Re: Looking for soundmodem info

[Bud Rogers <budr@netride.net>]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 22:22, Jeff Camp wrote:
> Thanks for the info, Bob.  I spent some time scouring the internet
> this morning looking for soundmodem info.  I downloaded
> soundmodem-0.9-1.i386.rpm and installed it, but now I'm getting the
> following error message when I try to start it up:
>
> [root@n0wjp ax25]# soundmodem -v 9
> sm[1855]: x86 CPU capability 0383f9ff, MMX enabled
> sm[1855]: mkiss: ifname sm0 mtu 256 hwaddr N0WJP-15 ipaddr 10.0.0.1
> netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
> sm[1855]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp"
> sm[1855]: audio: Error, cannot open "/dev/dsp"
> sm[1855]: cannot start audio
> [root@n0wjp ax25]#
>
>
> /dev/dsp exists.  The sound card is a sound blaster compatible. 
> Anyone have an idea what these error mean?  I'm not sure exactly
> where to start on this one.

Check the permissions on /dev/dsp.  On my system they look like this:

budr$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw----  1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 19  2003 /dev/dsp
budr$

I had to add myself to the audio group in /etc/group before I could 
use /dev/dsp.

HTH es 73,

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Bud Rogers <budr@netride.net>  KD5SZ