kernel 2.2.18 help please

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi,

Yes, I did make modules and make modules_install. I can't play the file when
I'm logged in as root. As for the permissions on dsp0, I'll let you know
about that at the earliest on Friday if I don't forget. Thanks for the help.
Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang at uq.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18 help please


> Hi:
>
> OK, one question at a time.  The PPP and network card modules.  Did you do
> a "make modules" and "make modules_install" when you compiled the kernel?
> If not, that's why it's not working.  You should be able to go to your
> kernel tree and just do this and reboot.
>
> With the dsp thing, first we need to determine where the problem is.  Do
> you get this error if you try playing a file as root?  If not, then you
> need to put yourself in the group that owns the device.  It's probably
> audio.  Do:
>
> ls -l /dev/dsp0
>
> It's probably owned by root and the audio group.  Take a look in
/etc/group
> to see if you're in the appropriate group.  The format of the group file
> is:
>
> <group-name>:x:<group-ID>:<user1>,<user2>,<user3>
>
> For example, my audio entry looks like this:
>
> audio:x:29:geoff,amanda
>
> You'll need to ensure that your user-level account is in the group that
has
> write permission to the dsp0 device.  You'll want to ensure that the
> permissions on this device are something like:
>
> crw-rw----
>
> You'lll want to check this for /dev/audio0 as well.
>
> Let me know if I've lost you <grin>
>
> As for OCR, there seem to be 2 options available.  The ocrshop thing I've
> not fiddled with but it seems to be a goer if you want to pay US$100.  It
> apparently has the omnipage 8 OCR engine.  The other is a GPL project
> called gocr (or jocr, depending on who you ask).  It has some way to go in
> quality, but hey it's free.  From what I've heard, ruby pretty much leads
> the way in OCR, so anything else pretty much is going to pull up short
(I'm
> happy to be contradicted on this though).
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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