On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:27:01AM +0200, Alexander Apprich wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:52PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > >However, any other attempt to get sound seems to fail: > > > >$ play info.wav > >sox: Unable to reset OSS driver. Possibly accessing an invalid file/device > > I might be wrong, but could you pls check the permissions on /dev/dsp > also, Fedora uses also per default. Try another audio player maybe xmms > to play info.wav... Thanks but I checked that. The permissions are correct I think: $ ls -l /dev/dsp -rw------- 1 norm root 0 Jun 15 19:08 /dev/dsp The problem occurs when an ioctl is done on the sound device. If I do a: strace -f play info.wav I see later: [pid 32345] open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 4 ... [pid 32345] ioctl(4, SNDCTL_DSP_RESET, 0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) Hence the 'Unable to reset OSS driver" message. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html