[MPlayer-users] Problem playing .rm files

[Geoffrey Trexler]

If he's using Slackware and has this problem, what I said is one possible solution. If you have a better way then please inform this individual how to achieve your goal. Who said anything about Mplayer setting up /dev/dsp????? Mplayer just uses it like many other programs, such as Xmms.

Regards,
Geoffrey

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:52:21 +0100
Gábor Lénárt <lgb at lgb.hu> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Geoffrey Trexler wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > I'm going to assume your using Slackware of some form...By default
> > Slackware doesn't have /dev/dsp set so that non-root users can use it. To
> > achieve this become su and do chmod ugo+rwx /dev/dsp this will give read
> > write and exec access to all users allowing them to start the sound
> > device. You may also want to do this to /dev/audio and /dev/mixer as well.
> 
> Please no! MPlayer is NOT a Linux install fixer! Maybe someone WANT to have
> THIS behaviour. For example on my system every audio devices are owned
> by root:audio with mode 660, and I can easily add people into group audio,
> if I want to allow them to use audio things. And MANY other setups exist,
> so imho it's a VERY bad idea to mess it up. Tomorrow you will ask MPlayer
> to compile a new kernel for you ;-) /dev/dsp is a GLOBAL OS thing and it's
> not only used by MPlayer (of course) so it's not the task of MPlayer to set
> it up. Imho.
> 
> - Gábor
> 
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