On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > I guess you should put yourself in group audio.
That's a slightly less brutal solution, but, alas, I'm not sure how to do it. You see, I AM in group audio, but processes that I start run under my user ID, not my group ID unless I explicitly tell them to use my group ID. Just being a member of group audio is not enough. Oddly, if I login as me, switch to group audio with 'newgrp audio', I can use /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, etc, but I can't run 'startx'. I don't understand this, as startx is rwxr_xr_x, so obviously I don't quite understand groups. Perhaps you can tell me exactly what commands you think I should run? I would prefer to start Netscape by selecting it from the window manager menu, and not by explicitly typing a command. Anyway, thanks for your help. I'm a little puzzled as to why I'm the only one having this problem, as I can't find anything about it on DejaNews. Did everybody else just change the permissions on the audio devices? Do I need to reinstall Netscape with the .deb package now that I have sound support in my kernel? thanks, Richard Hall > > Sasha. > > I'm still trying to get sound to work in Netscape. When I try to play a > > sound file, an error box pops up saying "Can't access device /dev/dsp". > > > > bash-2.01$ ls -l /dev/dsp > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 20 20:45 /dev/dsp > > > > I'm trying to get Netscape to run as group audio. I changed both the > > wrapper script and the actual binary with 'chmod 2755' so that > > > > bash-2.01$ ls -l /usr/lib/netscape/netscape > > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root audio 6929928 Nov 2 20:42 > > /usr/lib/netscape/netscape > > > > When I run netscape, though, it runs under my user ID according to 'top'. > > The brutal solution is to change the permissions on /dev/dsp, but I'm > > trying to learn and to do it the right way, so if anyone can explain to me > > why netscape runs under my user ID, how I can change it, or even what > > commands I might use to investigate the problem (strace?), I would be > > appreciative. > > > > Richard Hall > > Network Services > > University of Tennessee > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee
