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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
