Re: sound in gnome-sawfish
Steven,
thank you very much for your help. Currently I am already a member of the
audio group:
$ groups myself
$ myself: myself dialout audio dip
Remember that I can play music CD normally. The problem is
with the system sounds.
Any other idea?
Thank again!
Marcelo
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:25:49AM -0800, Steve R. Hastings wrote:
> The Gnome environment uses EsounD, the sound daemon originally written
> for the Enlightenment window manager. The actual name of the daemon is esd.
>
> esd will work great with a Sound Blaster Live! card. When you said
> "enable sound server startup" you were saying yes to esd, but esd did
> not work.
>
> I had this problem too. It was due to file permissions. I think you
> have the same problem.
>
> esd wants to talk to the device file /dev/dsp, which is owned by a group
> called "audio". One way to fix the problem would be to add read/write
> permission for anyone on the file /dev/dsp, but that is not the best way
> to fix it. The best way is to add your user name to the "audio" group
> in the /etc/group file. (Use the command "man group" for details on the
> format of /etc/group.) Once you are a member of the audio group, audio
> should work for you. Good luck.
>
>
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