My system is also Slackware 8.0, but I have installed the latest alsa drivers and have run the script 'snddevices' from that package I am not sure what devices RealPlayer8 is trying to use either. We need someone who knows what they are doing to educate us!!! Chuck . On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote: > Out of the box (slackware 8.0) audio, audio1, dsp and dsp1 appear to be > separate devices and default permissions had no privs for global others > and they are in the sys group along with some other audio sounding devices > like mixer and mixer1 and some midi devices. With this default > arrangement, no audio programs would work from normal user. At least then > I wqould get a message to the fact from programs like play and mpg123. > Realplayer, however doesn't give any messages - just plays silently. I now > have set rw for other for audio, audio1, dsp, and dsp1 but still silence > from realplayer in a normal user. Root plays fine. About the only option I > can see might be to add normal users to the sys group and give that a try. > I don't know what devices realplayer / trplayer is trying to access or why > normal users get the silent treatment. > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > I am having no difficulty with my audio output arrangement here, and have > > done nothing to create or modify any groups for my sound devices. > > > > On my system, /dev/dsp and /dev/audio are symbolic links with 777 > > permissions; they are linked to /dev/dsp1 and /dev/audio1 which have 666 > > permissions. > > > > Maybe those are not i;mportant details, but then again perhaps they are. > > > > Ch;uck > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (46% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waning Crescent (45% of Full)
