Erik, Yes, I tested with 'groups', /dev/dsp shows the group is 'audio'.
This pc uses ALSA. I've had trouble with eg audacity in the past where there was competition between possible audio streams Now, this is weird - when I ran 'strace xmms' (to see if I could pick an error) it all worked! Except - xmms could not work the playlist: the bolded track was not the one that was playing. I wonder if I have a problem with whatever the graphic toolkit is? I might also note that strace was not on FC7 - we've apparently outgrown that as a debugging tool. Maybe it's time to mess about with drives and go to Etch . . Kevin. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and > adding myself to the audio group made no difference. If you type 'groups' in an xterm, are you in the audio group? Whats the output of "ls -l /dev/dsp"? Is xmms set up to use /dev/dsp for output or is it ALSA? Is you machine using read OSS /dev/dsp or the ALSA emulation? If its the emulation, are the snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss modules loaded? Is it possible some other application has a lock on the audio output preventing xmms from playing? Have you tried playing audio with any other applications? Erik -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
