Debian-newbie questions

[waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:13:20AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote
> On Thursday 02 October 2003 00:21, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >   Hopefully I'll outgrow this status in few weeks.  Questions...
> >
> > 1) Help... No X-Windowing!  The startx command gets a response...
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: no such file or
> > directory The config file is there, but no X.
> 
> Sounds like you need to "apt-get install xserver-xfree86"

So I did "apt-get install xserver-xfree86" and it runs now.  Just one
more problem (sigh).  It comes up with...

Error while initializing the sound driver.
device /dev/disp can't be opened (Permission denied)

  Looking at my /dev directory, I see that /dev/dsp, /dev/dsp1,
/dev/dsp2, and /dev/dsp3 exist, all with permissions crw-rw----

  BTW, I installed the bf2.4 version of Debian, selecting ReiserFS and
devfs, if tha makes any difference.


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