I have sound working fine as the root user, but it is screwed as any other. I am using commercial OSS as I have NEVER been able to get any of the other stuff to work. I presented this problem to the tech folks at 4Front and their answer was to change the permissions on /dev/dsp by using the command chmod a+rw /dev/dsp* this did not make any difference. just for the sake of being thorough I also tried changing every other sound related device to the same and even tried doing chmod a+rwx /dev/dsp* and all the others. It still only works as root. I'm puzzled. I am using kernel 2.2.13 on a slink pure stable system (not the same one as before Brian :-)) I use Gnome session loaded at boot into the icewm-gnome window manager. If I start soundon as root it will carry over to the cdplayer and mixers that run in X and the mixer in gnome but the Gnome cdplayer still doesn't connect (I think that's another problem) Sorry to be so long about this but to me any sound system should be ubiquitous! Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! -- AdVance-Computing Systems
We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173