sound device only available to root?? (message from lspci -v)

[Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>]

lspci -v 


00:12.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003
        Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at ff00
        Capabilities: <available only to root>



This would seem to account for the fact that sound is not working
as a normal user and yes I am in the audio group. Alas mpg123
as root does not work either (on potato).

Permissions:


wtautz:3>la /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Feb 25 15:14 /dev/dsp
wtautz:4>la /dev/audio
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 Feb 25 15:14 /dev/audio