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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:47:49 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sound and xdmcp connections
Message-ID:  <20001005084749.A16881@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001005040805.27650.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com>; from vlaero@yahoo.com.au on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:08:05PM %2B1100
References:  <20001005040805.27650.qmail@web5102.mail.yahoo.com>

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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


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