Thanks for the suggestions I tried both of your ideas with no success. /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp returned no output and cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp issued white noise, but I knew that root and user 1 could play sounds so the sound card is OK.
Distro - RedHat 8.0 Added users to audio group and chowned :audio /dev/dsp. Still no luck. Have removed/reinstalled xmms hoping that there might have been a conflict with later installations of mplayer and Xine. Still no luck. Laurie On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Chris Deigan wrote: > 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
