Red Hat 5.8 {beta 1) I install the beta 1 with Gnome, create a normal user, login as that user and do a startx. Enlightenment and GNOME starts but there is no sound as the esound daemon (esd) has not started. Trying to start this daemon as the user gives an error; it must be started as root. (Note: prior to installing beta 1 and playing with Gnome and Enlightenment esd started automatically without a problem)
/dev/dsp has permissions: crw------- 1 root root 14, 3 May 5 1998 /dev/dsp so a normal user can't start ESD. Changing these to 666 fixes the problem. Don't know how they should be by default.
This is due to a problem with the user console pam configuration and the way gdm sets the DISPLAY variable. This is being corrected.