Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

baslinux - [BL] Re: Haunted Soundblaster?

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Baslinux mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] Re: Haunted Soundblaster?
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:57:31 +1000

Hi Folks,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:11:26 -0700
Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been trying to install an old Soundblaster 16 unde BL2. This was
> the classic
> ISA board with jumpers. It works well in DOS (the PC is a Pentium I). The
> initial-
> ization goes well under BL2 and all the requisite modules are loaded. The
> first odd
> symptom is that /dev/dsp, while it exists and has the proper permissions,
> cannot be
> opened by programs such as mpg123 and play. So, I tried to redirect audio
> output to
> /dev/audio. This worked for a while, and I could play mp3 and wav files.
> After a new
> boot, even this did not work. Has anyone had such problems or does anyone
> have any
> idea what might be happening?

I have had sort of similar problems when trying to run some applications
as USER.

To fix it, I set the executable (mpg123, timidity, and such) as "set user
id on execution" with mc, and now (some of them) play OK as USER.

Regards,
Ron

--
Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
This mail sent to you from sylpheed running on penguin-power




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page