Sound on sarge

[Paul King]

I have a feeling I may have broken something. I have been away from Debian for 
over a year, and now that I am back, I see a marked improvement in 
configurability (this time, I was happy with it after only two tries).

I was trying to configure the sound, and found in the documentation that I have 
to add privelaged users to an audio group if I want them to use sound. FIne, but 
then I found tha the permissions on /dev/dsp was rw-rw----. I had to change that, 
so I did a "chmod 4666" (I now think that setting the SUID bit was too generous), 
and the sound worked during that same login.

WHen I logged off, then logged back in again, the sound was gone, and seemingly 
nothing would bring it back. I was getting an error message about a missing 
library (can't recall exactly which one) with a .so.2 extension, but found the 
same library name under /usr/lib/xmms/Input with just a .so extension. ALso, xmms 
now freezes when attempting to press the "play" button.

Should I yank out xmms and reinstall?

Paul King
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