On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 09:01:37AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any > other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of > the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at > 4Front and their answer was to change the permissions on /dev/dsp by > using the command chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* this did not make any > difference. just for the sake of being thorough I also tried changing > every other sound related device to the same and even tried doing chmod > a+rwx /dev/dsp* and all the others. It still only works as root. I'm > puzzled. I am using kernel 2.2.13 on a slink pure stable system (not the > same one as before Brian :-)) I use Gnome session loaded at boot into > the icewm-gnome window manager. If I start soundon as root it will carry > over to the cdplayer and mixers that run in X and the mixer in gnome but > the Gnome cdplayer still doesn't connect (I think that's another > problem)
Are you sure your user is part of the 'audio' group? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Macintosh is Xerox technology at its best.
