> I have potato running on a laptop... > with the DS-XG yamaha sound card.... > I can play mp3's via free amp when I log into X as root... > but when I login to X as a normal user... > no sound.... > I'm thinking that only root has access to something... > the audio device? > I'm not sure how to tackle this or where to look at permissions.... >
Make sure that the user has access to the audio group in /etc/group eg: audio:x:29:voy1d so `adduser <username> audio' will add the user to the audio group and they should be able to play audio Mark "You're young, you're crazy, you're in bed, and you've got knives, so shit happens" Angelina Jolie on her approach to foreplay