Make sure the mp3s are good. Some that are badly encoded will do that,
sometimes just playing a little squeak then skipping to the next song.
chmod 777 /dev/*YOURMIXERHERE*
(look in the conf.modules to see what your card is aliased as.
-David Talbot
At 12:30 PM 6/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Riyad Kalla wrote:
>
>> If you open a console window, and type "xmms" and run it, what does it
>> complain about?
>
>It doesn't complain. :(( Also, no messages in /var/log/messages. Just all of
>the songs in my playlist go by really fast, and nothing plays.
>
>> What is the error? Does XMMS even load up? Or not even load? Do you have
>> read access to the sound files you are trying to play?
>
>XMMS loads and looks really pretty. But it only plays if I'm root when I run
>it. It won't even play if I set the binary suid root (really wierd). Other
>sound applications work fine when run as me. (ie: the `play` script works,
>The SLab multitrack recorder even works when run as me, but not full duplex
>since I'm still running OSS/Free. But XMMS only works as root. :(
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>
>Best,
>
>Dave Orme
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David J.
>> Orme
>> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:47 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [Cooker] XMMS w/ Cooker
>>
>> Running XMMS in cooker worked fine right after I installed it. Now (1
>> day later), it only works if I run it as root. I presume that the
>> security scripts changed the permissions of something but since I didn't
>> have postfix running, I have no idea what the might have changed. I'd
>> really like to be able to do sound without needing to be root and would
>> appreciate knowing what might have changed.
>>
>> Ironically, I can still use `play soundfile.au` as a normal user and
>> this still works. XMMS just doesn't work.
>>
>> I installed as "high" security.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>
>> Dave Orme
>
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