Re: Help needed starting audio

[Stuart Luscombe <stuart@ubersecksie.co.uk>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 07:54:20AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
> 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`

I don't actually have any system groups.
Not as far as I know anyway, the only users are
root and myself.

--
Stuart