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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