Re: Help needed starting audio

[David Raeker-Jordan <rkrjrdn@epix.net>]

Stuart Luscombe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>       Just about got everything working now.
> 
> I'm trying to run XMMS. But I can only seem to run
> it as root. When I try to run it as a normal user,
> I get the message:
> 
> Unable to connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket
> 
> I think this maybe a permission problem in /dev somewhere
> but I'm not sure where or what the permission should be...
> 

Try adding the user to the audio group.

`man addgroup`

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David Raeker-Jordan
mailto:rkrjrdn@epix.net
Harrisburg, PA, USA