[wplug] xmms/mp3 help
Brian Sammon
brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Oct 29 09:35:13 EST 2002
> my audio system. If I boot up xmms on the laptop (now known as remote) and
> start playing mp3 files, life is good and it would appear I have met with su
Is this when logged in as root?
> boot up the local into XP and get my hand-dandy Xwin32 to connect to the
> remote machine via ssh. Connection goes fine and when I launch xmms, the
> window appears. However, when I try to play an mp3 file, I get an error say
> the sound card is not configured properly. After some detective work, it wo
Do you log in as root here?
I suspect the problem is that you can play MP3s as root, but not as
another user.
If so, check the permissions on the sound device--"ls -l /dev/dsp"
I think you need to put the user who wants to play MP3s in the "audio"
group or something like that.
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