/dev/dsp permission denied

scottro · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 5:14 pm Post subject: /dev/dsp permission denied

I'm having a bit of trouble getting sound working on a new install (didn't have this problem in older releases)

I cd'd to /dev/ and did
MAKEDEV/audio

I get a series of messages
`mixer-' to `mixer': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `sequencer-' to `sequencer': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi00-' to `midi00': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `dsp-' to `dsp': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `audio-' to `audio': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `sndstat-' to `sndstat': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `mixer1-' to `mixer1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi01-' to `midi01': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `dsp1-' to `dsp1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `audio1-' to `audio1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi02-' to `midi02': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi03-' to `midi03': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `mpu401data-' to `mpu401data': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `mpu401stat-' to `mpu401stat': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi0-' to `midi0': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `rmidi0-' to `rmidi0': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `smtpe0-' to `smtpe0': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi1-' to `midi1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `rmidi1-' to `rmidi1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `smtpe1-' to `smtpe1': Operation not permitted
mv: cannot move `midi2-' to `midi2': Operation not permitted

I then look and see that in /dev I'll have, for example, dsp-
However, there is no dsp

When I tried catting a sound to it for the heck of it, I get
/dev/dsp permission denied

Wondering if I've missed something obvious--support for the sound card is compiled, as a module, into the kernel and modprobe indicates that it's loaded.

I suspect I missed something obvious (devfs is in the kernel and turned on, if that's an issue, so would be grateful for a pointer.

TIA

Scott

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Are you sure that you are root?

scottro · Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject:

Never mind, fixed it. Sigh, I can't believe it sometimes, I hadn't cd'd to /dev before doing MAKEDEV--had a bunch of sound device files in my /root directory.

Sorry
Thanks

Scott

Guest · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:03 am Post subject:

I have the same problem. And I've made sure I'm in /dev before running /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV audio.

I can get around it for now, by getting programs to use /dev/sound/dsp.

Any other thoughts?

fghellar · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 2:51 am Post subject:

The answer is here.
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