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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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