That does it. Interesting, so whoever logs in first owns the
soundcard for the length of their session?
Thanks for your help.
-Steve
Matthew Campbell wrote:
>
> The error message you're getting from TRPlayer is misleading because
> it comes from RealPlayer and was therefore written for a Windows
> system. What's actually happening is that TRPlayer doesn't have
> permission to use the sound card while you're logged out. Under both
> Red Hat Linux and Linux-Mandrake, when you're logged in on the
> console, you own the audio devices among other things; but when you
> log out, you no longer have access to them. So the easy fix for this
> problem is to run your background tasks as root.
>
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