18 june 2001 (19:51:39) John wrote: JF> Just what it says. I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" JF> yesterday and it took a while, so I left for work with it running. When JF> I returned and finished runing the configure sect. I returned to my JF> x-windows running enlightenment/w/gnome and now my sound system works JF> only as root. I looked at the various /dev/audio..dsp..snd etc and now JF> all of them are root.root and root.audio and none are executable. Anyone JF> else with this problem?
I had the same problem after installing a new soundcard. Only root could use sound. The solution in my case was: chmod a+rw /dev/dsp and chmod a+rw /dev/mixer. -- / Bartłomiej Krajewski \ \ http://kozanostra.o.k.pl /