Re: [newbie] Re: Kmidi to work when logged in as user...

1999-07-06 Thread gerry
Karen, At the command line "su" (substitute user) [in this case you need to become rootuser to change the permission of /dev/midi*, so you will need to enter the root's password] and then type ls -al /dev/midi* (the "*" is there, because, at least on my system there are 4 separate

Re: [newbie] Re: Kmidi to work when logged in as user...

1999-07-06 Thread Axalon
Thank you very much Gerry, bait is such a wonderful thing isn't it ;) you can also use man -K "insert something to look for here", man will prompt you yes/no/quit when it finds a page containing your search. yes displays it no doesn't and quit quits On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, gerry wrote: Karen,

Re: [newbie] Re: Kmidi to work when logged in as user...

1999-07-06 Thread Karen R
gerry wrote: Axalon was brief, but to the point, in his assistance. Axalon is sooo smart!! Maybe this grandma will be that smart someday?? sigh.. Karen wrote: i have the same problem; but i guess i'm dumber than charles... gerry wrote: [btw, I really wish you'd let me be the

[newbie] Re: Kmidi to work when logged in as user...

1999-07-05 Thread Charles Sprague
Hello: Can anyone here tell me how to get the Kmidi program in KDE to work while logged in as a user, not root? I'm using Mandrake 5.3 (festen). Kmidi works fine in root, but when logged in as a user, I get the message: "ERROR: Can't open output device". The system sounds and video sound