Daniel has the right idea. You need to add the user to the ``audio" group.
On 9 Oct 2001, at 19:34, Tom Allison wrote: Date forwarded: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:48:37 -0400 (EDT) Date sent: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:34:45 -0400 From: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org, debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: kde2 sound problem Forwarded by: debian-kde@lists.debian.org I found something useful on my sound problem on KDE. I opened an xterm and typed kde2 -h to see what my options are ... well kde started again. But it threw an interesting error: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). but the ls -l shows the permissions to be lrwxrwxrwx bleah!
