Karl Larsen wrote: > Mark Knoop wrote: >> Karl Larsen wrote: >> >>> There used to be a way to change permissions on the many /dev/xyz >>> directories. The /dev/dsp has a fancy permissions that do not work. I >>> want to change it back to root uucp and that I can handle >> >> But what is your problem with /dev/dsp? Are you sure that the 'fancy' >> permissions are causing it? >> > Yes. I read several messages on this list that said applications are > not working if they are sending data to /dev/dsp. I have this problem > too. If you look at the permission with ls -l it has my login then root > and then that stupid sticky bit thing. When I call /dev/dsp with a GUI > device the permissions are changed it seems. I think your problem is much more likely to be that another application is already using /dev/dsp What is the output of '/usr/sbin/lsof /dev/dsp' when you have this problem? A better solution is to configure applications to use ALSA so that you can have multiple sound sources playing simultaneously. -- Mark Knoop
