Re: No GNOME Sound Events When in Run-Level 5



"Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby@rochester.rr.com> writes:
> Why do I not hear GNOME sound events when running in run-level 5. I've
> never gotten this to work. The only way GNOME sound events work is when
> I run in run-level 3 and execute startx. Don't want to do this.

You need to give your user account permission to write to
/dev/dsp. How you do this exactly depends on your distribution, but
basically you make sure a group (such as "sound") owns /dev/dsp and
then put yourself in that group.

Havoc




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