On 12/30/2010 01:12 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 22:33 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: >> When tested xmms on mp3, I was logged in as root. > Not a good idea. And as well as the security/reliability issues, you > end up painting yourself into a corner. Get out of the habit of logging > in as root. It's rarely ever needed, other than by someone who's > previously logged in as root, keeps on doing so, and won't break the > habit. > > As for failing to open the sound device: If that's not down to a > problem you've permanently created by modifying things left right and > centre, because you've been logging in as root, then you *may* resolve > that by: Log out as root. Make sure all users are logged off. Log in > normally as a normal user. The sound device should, then, be available > to that user. > > That sort of thing is/was handled by console helper, which assigns the > non-shareable hardware to the user currently logged into the console. > > What's non-shareable hardware? Things like sound, which can't play > music for one user, and play music for another user, concurrently. > Well, not without two different songs playing over the top of each other > out of the same set of speakers. And things like *a* keyboard and *a* > mouse, which also can't be used by two different people at the same > time. > What a negative, judgement, useless response. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
