[vlc] Re: Problems with your software

[Eric Petit]

On Mon, May 12, 2003, jeremy Petzold wrote:
> it gives me this
> 
> [00000177] main audio output error: option audiofile-path does not exist
> [00000177] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
> 
> I have no clue how I could go about fixing the fisrt problem, but I attempted 
> to fix the second problem by doing a chmod 666 /dev/dsp. it worked the first 
> time and then after I loged out of the account I was in (root) and into my 
> user account to test the sound was once again lost with the same errors 
> above.

/dev/dsp is probably a link to /dev/dsp0, so you need to do a chmod 666
/dev/dsp0. You can also add your user to the 'audio' group (`adduser
/dev/dspuser audio'), then logout and login again.

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Eric Petit <titer at videolan.org>
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