i've redhat9 with gnome and the kernel 2.4. I've newly installed oss and the installation worked fine. the test after the installation worked perfekt. but now everytime, when I start my computer, he says:

and when I run volume control, he says

Then I saw that I even don't have a folder /dev/sound an then I made a symbolic link from /dev/mixer to /dev/sound/mixer.
the permissions of /dev/mixer are:

every time, when I change the owner or permission of mixer0, and I restart my computer the permissions are rechanged to crw and laurent. How can I change this? I have kudzu
What can I do that my mixer works?

The rights and owner for the audio devices are reshuffled whenever someone logs in to your PC, so you need to adjust the pemission/ownership settings for login.

I reinstalled oss and now it works. I don't know what I did wrong the last time.