On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:40:50AM -0700, gentuxx wrote > OK, I tried that and I have/can verify that I am in the audio group. > Logged out, then back in, even did a reboot. No joy. Now here's the > weird thing. mplayer works fine, for both video (sound with movies) > and audio (mp3s). But none of the GUI apps (XMMS, JuK, etc.) seem > to output any sound. As a matter of fact, XMMS errors out that it > "failed to open the audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin". And I > don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" from the desktop interaction > (minimizing windows, etc.). > > Any more ideas?
Two questions... 1) Run the command "ls -al /dev/sound/". What's the output ? 2) Are you familiar with PAM? (That will determine how we proceed to solve your problem, if it's what I think it is). -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
