Laurie Savage wrote: >xmms works perfectly for root and user 1. >Users 2, 3, 4 on the same machine cannot use it. Error message "mixer >being used by another applcation, check permissions ..." >/dev/mixer is u+rw user1:root
/dev/dsp is probably what's being used -- try fuser -v /dev/dsp >I believe the idea is that /dev/mixer inherits the user who last used it >but should set to the next user invoking it - that's how I interpret the >documentation and Howtos. What distro are you running, if debian, add the user to the 'audio' group. Another test is, cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
