*- On 15 Feb, Pollywog wrote about "RE: no sound"
>
> On 15-Feb-99 Pollywog wrote:
>> I installed Debian 2.0 and installed Netscape 4.5 and RealAudio 5.0 via the
>> Debian installers. I also have the OSS-Linux sound driver from 4-Front
>> installed. RealAudio does not make any sound, so I checked to see if it
>> would
>> play a wav file; it doesn't.
>>
>
> BTW this is an error message I get when I try a wav file:
>
> play /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav/file.wav
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
>
>
Is your user account a member of the audio group?
% ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/audio
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 May 28 1997 /dev/audio
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 May 28 1997 /dev/dsp
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Brian
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