From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 22:13:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prserv.net (out1.prserv.net [32.97.166.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4878537B419 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from foo.bar (slip-12-65-228-133.mis.prserv.net[12.65.228.133]) by prserv.net (out1) with ESMTP id <2002032606133720104qt26ce>; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:13:37 +0000 Received: (from mikeirw@localhost) by foo.bar (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2Q6Gn902611; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:16:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikeirw) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:16:48 -0500 From: Mike Irwin To: Mark Hummel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Get Sound to Work - Pls Help! Message-ID: <20020326011648.A2512@foo.bar> References: <20020325150045.ZHNU1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020325150045.ZHNU1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there>; from mhumm2@mchsi.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:05:23AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Hummel wrote: > I get nothing except the following error message: > > Sound server fatal error: /tmp/mcop-mark is not owned by user. > > I don't understand the error message. I logged in as Mark then su to > root before running startx. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Even if I could somehow test sound in BSD before entering KDE would be > nice. This is just a thought, but maybe you should try installing the wrapper port [/usr/ports/x11/wrapper/], and then you'll be able to 'startx' as non-root. You should be able to test sound before starting X by doing something like this: cat sample.wav > /dev/dsp -- Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message