Re: No GNOME Sound Events When in Run-Level 5

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby@rochester.rr.com> writes:
> Why do I not hear GNOME sound events when running in run-level 5. I've
> never gotten this to work. The only way GNOME sound events work is when
> I run in run-level 3 and execute startx. Don't want to do this.

You need to give your user account permission to write to
/dev/dsp. How you do this exactly depends on your distribution, but
basically you make sure a group (such as "sound") owns /dev/dsp and
then put yourself in that group.

Havoc