On 20/09/2007, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and
> adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've
> applied a solution without knowing what the problem was.  Any clues as
> to how to identify the problem?


strace xmms... and look for failed system calls, probably involving files
under /dev.

read strace(1), there are many ways to make its output more readable and
useful.

--Amos
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