XMMS Preferences glitch

[Bob Giesen <BobGiesen earthlink net>]

   I've been fighting with my SoundBlaster PCI512, trying to get it 
to make noise -- any kind of noise, whatsoever -- on my FreeBSD 4.4 
box. While trying different things, I found something curious...  
When I opened the xmms Preferences dialog while running Gnome as a 
regular user, xmms froze; clicking anywhere in one of its windows 
caused my PC speaker (the tinny little thing inside the case -- not 
the ones I _want_ to hear) would beep.  My only recourse was to kill 
xmms.  If I opened the Preferences dialog as root, I had no problem. 
I tried it without running Gnome and I had no problem setting 
preferences as either a regular user or root.

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