Re: Sound Problems....

[Mark Gray <markgray iago nac net>]

Ralph Slooten <ralph.slooten@quicknet.nl> writes:

> Could someone please help me. I have no idea if this is Gnome Related, or
> Redhat related, but the problem is as follows..
> 
> Some of the users on this PC have no access to the Soundcard. When I enable
> Gnome sound scheme, nothing happens....
> 
> For root and for my own login, everything works great. Gnome sounds and all.
> However when I try it again logged in as another user, for instance with XMMS,
> I get a warning saying something like "Error: Chack to see if your Soudcard is
> configured properly. Or check that you have the right plugin, or make sure the
> soudcard isn't being used by someone else!"
> 
> I had this problem a while ago, and resolved it by re-running "sndconfig",
> which fixed it, however now there is no change :-(
> 
> I am running gnome 1.0.55-12 with Redhat 6.2
> 
> Any ideas?

Easy answer:

    chmod 666 /dev/dsp

Pananoid answer:

  Create a group sound, add everyone you want to use sound to this group

    chown root.sound /dev/dsp
    chmod 660 /dev/dsp

Hope this helps.