On Dec 9, 2007 8:46 AM, Dave Ansell <<a href="mailto:dave@theansells.com">dave@theansells.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No such error messages.<br><br>Further investigation with mplayer reveals that<br> -ao oss works fine<br> -ao alsa doesnt work -various config error messages.<br><br>Unfortunately I dount understand enough about linux sound to understand what
<br>this really means :-(<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I had an issue with F8 where some sounds worked ( system-config-soundcard ) and some did <br>not ( embedded video from firefox ) I saw something that mentioned /dev/snd /dev/audio and /dev/dsp
<br>permissions... so I did a <br>chmod -R uog+rw /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/snd<br>and my sound issues seem to have been resolved. <br><br>I don't know if any of that is dynamically generated at boot time... and I'll have to do this
<br>again... or if those are static directories.... <br><br>Now if a hacker ever hacks in... they will be able to send bad sounds over my <br>sound card... but if they get in and can do that... I'll have other things that I need
<br>to worry about. <br><br>jack <br> </div></div><br>