On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 22:38, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I added my self to the "audio" group using "usermod -G audio" and the > /dev/dsp error message seems to have gone away. I don't know if this > the "correct" way to do things. Is there a more Debian or Gnome way to > sort out the problem or is what I have done OK?? > > Cheers, > Brendan Simon. > > > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > Nope. gnome-panel _is_ installed. I did however notice that I get > > the message "/dev/dsp: Permission denied" when I try to run > > "gnome-session --failsafe" from an X session that only has a xterm > > running (no window manager). Could this be stuffing things up? How > > can I get around this??? You did add yourself to the audio group properly and I personally don't know of any other way to add users to groups. However, I don't know your audio problems are related because you did not tell whether or not adding yourself to the audio group solved your gnome-session problem.
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