kde can't open sound driver

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

sean darcy wrote:

> i'm using fc3 with kde. I got an error starting kde that /dev/dsp 
> didn't exist.  So i created it:
>
> mknod -m 666 /dev/dsp c 14 3
>
> Now I get an artsmessage :
>
> device can't be opened for playback ( Permission denied)
>
> /dev/dsp permissions are rw-rw-rw-.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> sean
>
>
Check for sound drivers loaded with /sbin/lsmod | grep snd, if anything 
is returned, then you have indeed drivers loaded. My guess, however is 
that you don't have any driver loaded, and hence the device was not 
created by udev.