Re: sound and windowmaker

Eric Piel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tom * a écrit :
> I'm using WindowMaker and running a p2p x application
> when my girlfriend logs in I use the "gdmflexiserver" to bring up a new 
> login screen
> this way I don't have to log out and shut down my p2p app
> 
> now when she logs in her KDE starts as normal but with an error can't 
> stat sound server
> and when she tries to play an music file with xmms there is an error
> "Please check if:
> the sound card is configured properly
> no other program is blocking the sound card"
> 
> when she tries to start alsamixer or kmix from her terminal she gets 
> error : "function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied"  
> She does not get these errors when she starts xmms or alsamixer after 
> she su to root
> 
> When I log in as ROOT after opening a new logging screen with 
> "gdmflexiserver" everything is working fine
> when my girlfriend loges in after I log out everything is working fine
> 
> I has to do something with WM , It must be blocking the sound card
> I installed WM from RPM and it is the version 0.91.0
It's very hard for me to beleive it could have anything to do with WM. 
WM doesn't do *anything* with the sound. Have you checked she is part of 
the "audio" group?

Eric
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