High, On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Stefan Bellon wrote:
> Hi! > > My HP OmniBook XT1000 has an VIA Technologies VT82C686A sound chip > onboard. Therefore I compiled the ALSA modules (0.9) for my 2.4.17 > kernel. > > The weird thing is: When using XMMS to play some sound file, this only > works for user root (which I really do *NOT* want to use for such > stuff). Other users don't get sound with XMMS (if you click on play, > nothing happens, i.e. the song really does not play). However if I pipe > some data into /dev/dsp, then even users can hear "sound". > > alsaplayer itself doesn't work for either root nor users. Hm. > > So, what's my problem here? It surely is no hardware problem as the > sound indeed does work (for root). > Are the users members of the group audio? crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 /dev/sound/dsp Check it per user with 'groups', and if not, do as root a 'addgroup user audio' and let the user login again. Greetz, Sebastiaan
