On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:49:04AM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi, I get this message when logging into my account & in the root > account also. "error while initializing the sounddriver /dev/dsp can't > be opened (permission denied) The sound server will continue using the
Permission denied often means you need to add the user to group audio.
> null output device. From the kde menu clicking on information > sound
> brings up this message: "There was an error loading the module the
> diagnostics is:"
> No diagnostics are provided.
> PCI Info gives: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller:,
> VIA technologies, Inc. AC97 AudioController (rev50)
> Subsystem: VIA Technologies. Inc Unknown device 4511
What is you chipset and what sound modules are you loading?
> flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
> I/O ports at 9c00 (size=256)
> I/0 ports at a000 (size=4)
> I/O ports at a400 (size=4)
>
> Also although I have followed the grub help, man pages and advice here I
> still cannot get debian or slackware to boot from the grub floppy. I
> almost always get an "error 15 file or filesystem not found" I haven't
> installed grub to the MBR because I wanted to be sure I could boot
> everything from it and I can't. I can boot SuSE and windoze. Also
> entering grub from the command line and doing "root (" didn't get me
> disks/disk info. Would lilo be easier to set-up? Debian is on hdb5 a
Assuming the kernel you want to boot is "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-386" and
/boot is a separate partition, run
grub> find /vmlinuz-2.4.16-386
to determine the root device. If /boot is not a separate partition, try:
grub> find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-386
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