For my SB Live, and Mdk 8.0b2 I had to change the
perms on mpg123, and for kde sounds enter play
in the use external player field in kde's
control center. Xmms is using OSS driver entry.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Spackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done
> a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time,
> as a non-root user, i can play mp3's. the rest of the time (using
> the mpg123 program), i get a "permission denied" error. not aware
> of having done anything sound-related during or after the install.
Just a thought, but have you tried any other programs for sound? Like play
or xmms, etc? I only ask because I had some problems with mpg123 when i
first installed 7.2. Sound was working fine, it was mpg123 that was having
problems.
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