Re: Sound problems

["Iain" <tigermilk btinternet com>]

> > First of all, I have been configuring my sound card and finally managed
> to get it working (or at least partially see below). So I opened GMIX3.0
> to see what it was. But now each time I start an Gnome/E session GMIX3.0
> is opened although I close it before I log out. So question is how could
> I stop this phenomenon. I am not sure but I think this could be linked
> to the fact that at boot I get the message aumix: error opening
> dev/mixer :no such device. But I have looked in /dev and there is a
> mixer device.
> 

Shut the program, then save the session when you log out.

> Second problem : I am able to play my music CDs in Fvwm session fromm
> root account but not in Gnome as user. When I try to play in Gnome I get 
> an error message saying that there was an error accessing the CDROM and
> that i should check CDROM support was compiled or that I have the right
> permission  for acess to the device. I thought that would be solved by
> putting user option in fstab for cdrom bit it hasnt changed a thing. So
> I wa thinking this could be due to a special option to set in Gnome as
> it is working in Fvwm.

You need to set the permissions on /dev/cdrom (or whatever it links to). 
I *THINK* theyshould be 666, but I'm not sure.

iain