At a root shell I type: chmod a+rw /dev/sndstat; chmod a+rw /dev/audio; chmod a+rw /dev/dsp Type this all on one line, just like this, you can even copy and paste from this mail if you want, be sure to put in all the semi colons :) I hope this helps, and if it ever resets back to the default, then put this line in your /etc/rc.local file at the very bottom and it should do this every boot up time. assuming those are your soundports On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > awesome thanks Frank thats good to hear since I'm a real fan of KDE. > > Any idea what to do about the sound thing? Root can use all sound devices and > none of the other users can. Its really annoying since I know its a simple > permission thing but I don't know which permissions. > > its a sblive, users can mount cdrom drives but they cannot access the sound > drivers to use Xmms, system sounds, play MP3's, play.wav files or use sound in > games like quake3. I'm seriously bummed. Thanks for any ideas. > > > Abe > > > >===== Original Message From frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== > >On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Abe wrote: > > > >> > hello list. seems I'm eating some crow today. The version of gnome that > >> is included with 7.2 is fast, agile, intuitive and overall excellent. It's > >> weird because it seems the KDE and Gnome have traded places. Previously > >> KDE was sort of ugly and utilitarian but pretty fast and very useful while > >> gnome was very slow and clunky. KDE 1.9.3 is beautiful....and sllooooooow. > >> I changed the taskbar icons to be bigger and now the applications don't > >> work and I can't figure out how to change them back. Funny huh? > > > >i believe kde is still carrying a lot of debug code, which slows it > >down...that'll be gone in the afterbeta...downloading the more recent kde > >packages will cure that "big icon = no program" problem...until you do that > >you can delete those icons from the panel, manually pull new ones out of > >/usr/bin or elsewhere depending on the prog, and drop those to the > >panel...icons placed on the panel that way work, or at least did for me when > >i ran into that same "no program" problem... > > > >hope that helps, > > > >frank > >--------------- > > Jesus saves, > Allah forgives, > Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. > > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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