From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 23:47:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D9737B6B6 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 23:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (hyperion.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.112.212]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.10.1/8.10.1/5) with ESMTP id e956lpM24420; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:47:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (agamemnon.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.194.74]) by hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/2) with ESMTP id IAA18522; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:47:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from stolz@localhost) by agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1-gb-2) id IAA16895; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:47:49 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:47:49 +0200 From: Volker Stolz To: Paul Jansen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sound and xdmcp connections Message-ID: <20001005084749.A16881@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20001005040805.27650.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001005040805.27650.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com>; from vlaero@yahoo.com.au on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:08:05PM +1100 Organization: Chair for CS II, Anomalous Programming Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:08:05PM +1100, Paul Jansen wrote: > /usr/X11R6/bin/X -query somehost.com > > When I fire up x11amp to try and play an mp3 I expect > that I will start to hear the sound coming from the > target machine's speakers. This doesn't happen. Is > this behaviour configurable? I remember years ago I > did this with some SGI machines and sound did come out > on the target machine speakers. At least Solaris changes permissions for the sound device at login-time, so that the user on the console is the only one who can use it. Perhaps thats the problem here. -- Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message