From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Nielsen Subject: Re: Looking for soundmodem info Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:20:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20050129052058.GB12792@n7xy.net> References: <002501c5040c$044708d0$046fa8c0@JLX> <20050127014554.GA8492@n7xy.net> <003e01c504f1$0aa804a0$046fa8c0@JLX> <200501281611.04327.budr@netride.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501281611.04327.budr@netride.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux Hams On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2005 22:22, Jeff Camp wrote: > > Thanks for the info, Bob. I spent some time scouring the internet > > this morning looking for soundmodem info. I downloaded > > soundmodem-0.9-1.i386.rpm and installed it, but now I'm getting the > > following error message when I try to start it up: > > > > [root@n0wjp ax25]# soundmodem -v 9 > > sm[1855]: x86 CPU capability 0383f9ff, MMX enabled > > sm[1855]: mkiss: ifname sm0 mtu 256 hwaddr N0WJP-15 ipaddr 10.0.0.1 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > > sm[1855]: audio: starting "/dev/dsp" > > sm[1855]: audio: Error, cannot open "/dev/dsp" > > sm[1855]: cannot start audio > > [root@n0wjp ax25]# > > > > > > /dev/dsp exists. The sound card is a sound blaster compatible. > > Anyone have an idea what these error mean? I'm not sure exactly > > where to start on this one. > > Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. On my system they look like this: > > budr$ 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 > Also check that the soundcard driver is either compiled-in or loaded as a module. 73, Bob, N7XY