[SATLUG] Sound card DSP

[Daniel DiPaolo]

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 20:23, Timothy Beck wrote:
> Well, I'm getting ready to change the permissions and stuff on the files. The 
> thing that gets me, all users, NOW, the way it is, has crw------- before it, 
> when I do ls for the files.  Since there are a few who think this could be 
> wrong, I will change them. 
> 
> Just for further info, when I check to see who owner is of the files, "I" am. 
> And I'm running the sessions as "me". Pehaps this is weird and RedHats way of 
> handleing the permissions for sound?? Anyone else have any other suggestions 
> who has experiance with VMWare? I'm running VMWare as user "me". 
> 
> Like I've said, "I" have no problem running sound with any other app.
> 
> Tim

Yeah, sorry, my post wasn't really directed at your problem as much as
it was attempting to dispel a common (poor) solution as the Right Way
(TM) of doing something.

Are you using any sort of sound daemon like "arts" or "esd"?  Well,
perhaps a better question (if you don't know the answer to the previous
one) would be to ask if you can ever play sound in more than one program
at once (i.e., have more than one program accessing the sound card at
any given time).  If not, perhaps some program is blocking on your sound
card (should be /dev/dsp), and that is preventing VMWare from obtaining
any ability to read/write to it.

-- 
Daniel DiPaolo <ddipaolo at strike.homelinux.org>
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