(Linux) Soundcard on works when root?

Spider · 13 Jan 2007 at 11:33

Im just 'coming to terms' with Linux, so please be patient!

When Im logged in as root, everything works fine. If i log in as a standard user, a number of things dont wanna play ball, most significant of which is the fact that my soundcard doesn't work!
If i try to play a song through xmms i get the error:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such file or directory

Ive added the user to the audio group, but dont know what else to investigate or do. can anyon help?

thanks

Spider · 13 Jan 2007 at 11:36

Backtrack 2.0

Spider · 13 Jan 2007 at 12:27

Thanks, I went and changed it to ALSA but its made no difference. It seems to play a track but there's nothing coming out of my speakers. lol
I even changed the default sound system in the KDE control panel to ALSA rather than auto detect, but that didn't help either

Spider · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:05

Brilliant! Thanks.
Changed permissions giving everyone read permissions (only had write beforehand! ???) but it didn't work. Rebooted and its working! (So much for not having to reboot in Linux - at least Windows tells you you need to reboot! lol)

Thanks again for the help!

Spider · 13 Jan 2007 at 16:44

Excellent,

Thanks for all the support!