Oh, for Pete's sake. I tried yet another regular user, and he worked fine. So, I just deleted the .xmms directory with the problem user, and things work now. I wish I had saved that directory so I could see what might have been the problem. Ugh.
Joel On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:33:31PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: > I used to know this but: > XMMS runs fine for my regular user, but when another regular user tries to > use it, the song loads, but plays very fast, and there is no sound. There is > no attempt made to access the audio device, because this behavior occurs > even when there is another xmms program running successfully from my regular > user. > strace xmms gives an error over and over again: > read(4, 0xbffff974, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > > This doesn't appear to be a permissions problem with the mp3's. > > I made xmms chmod +s so it has the following permissions: > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root users 964239 Feb 17 2000 /usr/bin/xmms > > I tried to install an updated version of xmms, but, as is getting common, it > wouldn't compile on my badly abused caldera 2.4 box. > > I found the FAQ regarding xmms but they don't mention this problem. > > The other regular user can play mp3's fine with mpg123, so this may be > some KDE or graphics problem. > > Any insight appreciated, > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
