"Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > you need to logout and relogin before group membership takes affect. Oh, I forgot, I haven't logged out in about a week.... Isn't linux great? > i don't see why root privileges would improve the quality of playback, > running as root is of course not an acceptable workaround... It's better than not being able to play at all, but I'd rather fix it. jas.