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Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment



On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On  8 Nov, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment"
> > I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME.  But
> > when I try to start GNOME from an eterm, I get this...
> > 
> > $ panel
> > /dev/dsp: Permission denied 
> > 
> > Anyone seen it before?
> 
> I don't user either but this looks like a simple permission problem. By
> default /dev/dsp is is owned by root with group audio.  So your user
> must be in the audio group.  'adduser <user> audio' should get you past
> the above problem.

I think you mean `addgroup <user> audio'. And check that /dev/dsp
has group `audio' too.

> You might have to restart X to get the group
> noticed, use the 'id' command to check that the current shell knows you
> are in the audio group.

You'll have to log out and back in again to get it to work.
-- 
alisdair mcdiarmid                           alisdair@wasters.org
[funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change is different now]


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