Re: New User

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

On Thursday 29 May 2003 01:48, b wrote:
> 1. Soundcard doesn't work under KDE as user, but it
> does under root. (I know, don't use X as root, t'was
> an accident).
>
> Error Dialog: Sound server informational message:
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied)
> The sound server will continue, using the null output
> device.

/dev/dsp should be owned by root.audio.

Put your user in the audio group with 'adduser username audio' and then 
relogin. The id command should show you as a member of the audio group now 
and sound should work.

> 2. My first installation and use of Evolution 1.2.4
> was successful. Today, however, I upgraded to unstable
> 1.2.4-2 and it complains:
>
> bg@debian:~$ evolution
> (Evolution:2039): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported
> by C library
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

If it still works afterwards, you can probably ignore this one.

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