[TriLUG] gaim-076 and sound

[Owen Berry]

Are you using Gnome, KDE, or other?

Owen

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 12:07, Ralph Blach wrote:
> I am trying to get sound to work as a user.  I have an off the shelf  
> redhat 9.0 system with gaim-076 compiled from the source an x86 hardware 
> ( Thinkpad t40)
> Other sound options like play, realplay,  and and  odd decoder works 
> fine as user
> 
> I compiled in the debug option to see what was happening.
> 
> Heres what seems to happen.
> As root the oss sound driver loads and plays the sound correctly,
> As a user, the oss sound driver does not load and the sound does not play.
> 
> Is there something special as a user under gaim-076 that I have to do
> the oss driver to load
> I have edited the /etc/libao.conf  and put the line
> 
>  default_driver=oss
> 
> in it
> 
> 
> Any insights would be appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Ralph "Chip" Blach