Re: Sound Problems....Solved :-)

[Mark Gray <markgray iago nac net>]

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

> Damn, how could I have overlooked that one :-)  Problem solved! Had the same
> problem with the mixer applet, but that's solved too.
> 
> What I don't understand is how that got changed? The /dev/dsp and the
> /dev/mixer "belonged" to me, and not to root! I have never changed that....
> 
> I do do most changes in my computer logged in as myself, and in the
> gnome-console using "su". Could that have something to do with that?

There is some application which changes permission and ownership of
sound devices running around in the redhat stable (the same thing
happened to me with a redhat-6.1 computer -- since I am not getting
paid to track it down, I have not bothered looking into it further :-)