Dennis R. wrote:

> I've got slack8.1 installed on a 450mhz and all is well with the
> exception of sound use by other any other user execept root.
> I pecked around google and found a few things such as:
> chmod a+r /dev/dsp
> chmod a+r /dev/mixer
> chmod a+r /dev/sequencer
> chmod a+r /dev/audio
>
> This didn't help at all.....as a user I still get permission denied when
> trying to use the sound server. I opened up the X-server and using
> kuser finally got everthing to work....but would have rather gotten it
> fron the console.....what else should I have done to get this done fron
> the console?

My experience from today: in kde control center, or otherwise, set artsd
sound system to auto-suspend if not in use on a 1 second timer. I had gaim
refuse to even load, but when i set that it worked immediately.

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