Re: Esound and vmware

[Andy Spiegl <debian-user.andy@spiegl.de>]

Hi!

thanks for your replies!  It works now.

> I've used ESD with VMWare fine. What are the permissions on 
> /dev/dsp? What user is running VMWare? What user started esd?
Perm: 666
same user for all

But here was my mistake:
> if you start esound with
> # esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2
> 
> it should let other program access to /dev/dsp

I was running esound 2.6.  I upgraded to 2.10 and now it works!

Thanks again,
 Andy.

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