Re: Sound does not work with User other than root

From: "David R. Hampton" <hampton cisco com>
To: Chris Sutcliffe <chris infocore-ent com>
Cc: Gnome <gnome-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Sound does not work with User other than root
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:53:49 -0700

chris> I get all sounds working perfectly fine when I run Gnome as
chris> root, however, if I run as any other user, I get no sound (even
chris> with sound enabled).

It you are running on a Redhat system, check the permissions on
/dev/dsp*.  The 'dev' RPM installs these as root.root with 0600 or
0644 permissions.  Change this to 0666 and you should be fine.

david

References:
- Sound does not work with User other than root
  - From: Chris Sutcliffe

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