Guest jghat Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 When I make the shortcut described it works, then when the machine is rebooted or restarted the shortcut becomes a directory and has to be deleted then the process done again. Any ideas on how to prevent that from happening? Problem below. Thank you. When I do the following to resolve my sound problems it works UNTIL I reboot then I have to do it all over again. It turns the short cut outlined below into a directory which the sound server can not open. The directory is empty and the shortcut is gone. Any suggestions? Else I'll live with it until 9.1 comes out and I'll reload the whole thing. I've posted my original question with the fix for reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 Either something is wrong with your post or my browser, but I have no idea what your talking about. What shortcut are you referring to?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jghat Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 Here is the instruction someone gave me to create a short cut to the dsp in dev/sound. I don't know why this didn't show up in the original post I thought it was there but I must not have pasted it as I thought. ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp <enter> However the problem is /dev/dsp literally comes and then disappears. I've tried re-creating dsp and sometimes that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I'm not sure why your loosing your symlink. Just as a wild guess, try making it a hard link instead of a soft link by running the same command as root but delete the "-s" like so: # ln /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp <enter> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jghat Posted January 19, 2003 Report Share Posted January 19, 2003 I can only make the soft link to /dev/sound from dev. When I take out the -s an error comes up that I can not do it. Interestingly enough logged in as root all the time while trying, I can not copy the dsp from dev/sound to the /dev directory permission denied! Any other suggestions? Thanks much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 I hate to doubt you, but that doesn't sound like you were root. can you paste the contents of your terminal when you see this? do you get any other types of error messages along the way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jghat Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 [root@laptop dev]# ln /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp ln: creating hard link `/dev/dsp' to `/dev/sound/dsp': Operation not permitted [root@laptop dev]# ------- Here is the error, if I make it ln -s it works! I also can not copy the dsp from sound out to the /dev directory same error. Thank you for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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