From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bud Rogers Subject: Re: Looking for soundmodem info Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:11:03 -0600 Message-ID: <200501281611.04327.budr@netride.net> References: <002501c5040c$044708d0$046fa8c0@JLX> <20050127014554.GA8492@n7xy.net> <003e01c504f1$0aa804a0$046fa8c0@JLX> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <003e01c504f1$0aa804a0$046fa8c0@JLX> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Hams On Thursday 27 January 2005 22:22, Jeff Camp wrote: > Thanks for the info, Bob. I spent some time scouring the internet > this morning looking for soundmodem info. I downloaded > soundmodem-0.9-1.i386.rpm and installed it, but now I'm getting the > following error message when I try to start it up: > > [root@n0wjp ax25]# soundmodem -v 9 > sm[1855]: x86 CPU capability 0383f9ff, MMX enabled > sm[1855]: mkiss: ifname sm0 mtu 256 hwaddr N0WJP-15 ipaddr 10.0.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > sm[1855]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp" > sm[1855]: audio: Error, cannot open "/dev/dsp" > sm[1855]: cannot start audio > [root@n0wjp ax25]# > > > /dev/dsp exists. The sound card is a sound blaster compatible. > Anyone have an idea what these error mean? I'm not sure exactly > where to start on this one. Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. On my system they look like this: budr$ 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, -- Bud Rogers KD5SZ