Re: Unidentified subject!

[Peter Clark <peter-clark@bethel.edu>]

On Friday 28 February 2003 02:02 pm, Robert Tilley wrote:
> On my unstable box with KDE 3.1 installed, root can properly play sound.
>
> All other users receive the message:
>
> 	Sound server informational message:
> 	Error while initializing the sound driver:
> 	device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)
> 	The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>
> Can any suggest a reason for this?  Permissions perhaps?

	For the future, may I recommend that you first search the archive? This 
question has come up several times in the last two-three weeks, and 
inevitably the answer boils down to:
1. Check to make sure that the users belong in group audio.
2. Check to make sure that the permission on /dev/dsp has read-write access 
for group audio.

99.9% of the time, this will solve your problem.
	:Peter
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