What soundsystem do you use? Maybe it can be pulse/jack problem.
What is the sound output plugin of your programs?

2012/5/1 Hans Georg Schaathun <[email protected]>:
> I suddenly realised that awesome does not give me sound.
> Root can play music, but I cannot; not even as group audio.
> It used to work when I used the xfce4-session, but using
> awesome without a DE, it does not.
>
> Google gives me plenty of hits explaining how to debug sound
> in various DE's, but not with a bare WM.  The system is Ubuntu 11.04,
> and everything loooking like a sound device (/dev/snd/*) is
> root.audio mode 660.  There is no /dev/audio device.  Thus the
> stone age skills fail me too ...
>
> Does anyone know how to get sound priviliges without a DE, when
> all the hardware and drivers demonstratably work?
>
> TIA
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