On Wednesday 21 February 2001 20:13, you wrote: > Greetings, > > Whenever I change wm's from KDE to Gnome I lose all sound > support. > > The last time, I was configuring my desktop in Gnome, got > frustrated, logged out and then back into KDE. > > Now when I attempt to listen to music through XMMS, I receive an > error of the type: > > No connection to sound device ... "please make sure that artsd 2> is running" > > How do I 1) determine which sound device is loaded, 2) run > "artsd" ? > > I've checked and confirmed that my card is configured properly - > es1371 and managed to hear the test sounds in HardDrake. > > Could someone please advice with either a terminal command > sequence or something that I am missing in DrakeConf? I've found > that Linuxconf just screws up my system. > > Thanks, > C. Masters -- Go into drakconf and then to the user & groupsmanager. Check if 'audio' is added in the groups part behind the specific user that is having the sound problem. If not: add it and your problems are over. -- Semper avanti, sailing on Linux, Harm Bathoorn Free evermore. Hoek. NL. |~> | _________ ___ |______________________.__\_|_|____|_____... \___\_|______________________|____|_|__________|__ _\_Triade______________________________NL______/____