From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 7:53:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E3E37B42C for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 07:53:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f4GElUg30946; Wed, 16 May 2001 10:47:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) Message-ID: <00f001c0de17$b8d4ecf0$0f01a8c0@phantom> Reply-To: "Gerald T. Freymann" From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: "Peter" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Only root can get sound. Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:51:42 -0400 Organization: eagle.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You just lost me. > As user all I type is 'xmms' not 'xmms > /dev/null' if that is what you meant --- I had this problem as well. The non-root user needs to load xmms, and there's a setting in there that selects the audio OUTPUT method. I had to change it to something else (sorry, can't remember from memory) and voila, it started working. Similar to the way you can tell WinAmp to output mp3's to wav format in a directory... Xmms allows you to select various output/sound methods. Experiment. It'll work eventually! I believe I found this out by reading the docs in the xmms directory.... -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message