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Re: only root can hear sound..?



> 
> I've got something of a catch 22 going  with regard
> to rvplayer and netscape, and the oss sound driver. 
> 
> I loaded the oss sound driver for my 2.0 config and it works nicely, but
> for root only. 
> play -v /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/Snicker.au
> results in: 
> /dev/dsp: Permission denied
> 
> I can't run netscape as root (a security issue) and I can't hear audio as
> a user. Rvplayer works only under root root as well. I can start it up as
> a user, but can't hear anything, presumably because of th permissions
> problem. 
> 
> Thanx for help on this matter. 
> 

try 'chmod a+rw /dev/dsp' as root

HTH
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