that is one of the first things I tried.
no soap. the sound starts plauing when I log in as a user but then gets
jumpy and finally quits (freezin the entire box when it does). this is 
definitely a lot more complex than a permissions problem.

Technomage Hawke

KevinO wrote:
> 
> 
> If the sound works properly with you running as root... This sounds like
> a permissions problem. Try changing
> the file permissions on /dev/audio, /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer to allow world
> read and write as a test. These device files are sometimes owned by
> group audio so making yourself (user, not root) a member of group audio
> may fix things and allow you to run ok with the original permission
> settings.
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