Conor_D_Wynne at Dell.com wrote:
> 2. The sound no longer works. I realise that alsa has replaced OSS and so I
> have installed the alsa rpms from fedora.
> alsaconf detects my sblive and I can up and down the channels. I have not
> tried running xmms or anything as root, should have.
> As a normal user, all apps tell me I cannot open dev/mixer. Permissions
> issue? But dev/mixer does not seem to exist!
Sound like the OSS compatability module isn't loaded. What does lsmod
say?
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