Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:16:48 -0500 From: Mike Irwin <mdi@foobox.com> To: Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Get Sound to Work - Pls Help! Message-ID: <20020326011648.A2512@foo.bar> In-Reply-To: <20020325150045.ZHNU1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there>; from mhumm2@mchsi.com on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:05:23AM -0600 References: <20020325150045.ZHNU1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there>
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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
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