From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 16:31:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D23F37B4D7 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1312 invoked by uid 100); 25 Nov 2000 00:31:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14879.2124.559429.607850@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:31:08 -0600 (CST) To: "Erik Rothwell" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AUDIO PROBLEM: Only 1 user can hear sound. In-Reply-To: <129088838@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erik Rothwell types: > I got my audio working, fine, I thought. Until I added more users to the system. > > I have the K7T Pro motherboard from MSI which features that neat VIA chipset with the onboard audio. . . so, I compiled device pcm into my kernel and, although it didn't work at first, it seemed to correct itself (I did nothing but it started working) and off I was happy as a bird, yadda yadda. Please put newlines in your text every 70 characters or so; it makes your mail easier to deal with for people with RFC-compliant mailers. > But then, when I added user accounts for my roommates, I came to the horrible discovery that *sound does not work for them.* > > It's not a multiple users at one time issue, it's just, a single-user at a time, still, no sound. Well, without error messages, the best that can be done is a guess. My guess is that other users don't have permission to use the device files for the audio subsystem.