Shut down X and any sound daemons (esd, artsd) and from the console try playing an .ogg or .mp3 with a text-mode player, like splay. If that works, you know the sound subsystem and permissions are correct, and you can start looking at higher-level issues like esd permissions, etc.I posted earlier about network and sound dying apparently after an apt-get upgrade. I've got network back, and sound works as long as I'm root. It still does not work again as a normal user though.
As the sound driver module was removed with my prior fiasco, I used modconf to load i810_audio drive (I have an nforce2), and sound works in root. Logging in as a non-root user though, which is a part of the audio group, there is no sound. I checked permissions on /dev/dsp, and it seems to be correct (root/audio). I tried the nvaudio driver w/ same results.
I did notice that in xmms it was setup prior to use OSS as the driver, which no longer works at all. To use xmms, and this only works in root, I have to set it to use esound.
This sounds like an obvious permission issue, but aside from checking /dev/dsp, don't know where to look.
I just installed alsa-base and alsa-oss, but neither seems to make a difference.
Any thoughts/pointers/ideas would be appreciated,
Thanks, Paul
-- Kent
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