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
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