Error message with gedit on Warty

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Sun Mar 27 18:13:41 UTC 2005


When starting gedit from the command line, I get the following error:

/dev/dsp: No such device


It certainly exists:

$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 2005-03-23 13:05 /dev/dsp


And what would a sound device have to do with gedit?

Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
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