On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:52:58PM -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote > > I would check the permissions of /dev/dsp and /dev/snd maybe they should > be world rw or something. The /var/tmp is just what the source directory > is, don't worry about that.
No /dev/dsp on my system. As for /dev/snd [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Jan 28 21:50 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 3400 Jan 29 02:50 .. crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 2 Jan 28 21:50 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 4 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 3 Jan 29 12:24 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 5 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D2c crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 1 Jan 28 21:50 seq crw-rw---- 1 root root 116, 33 Jan 28 21:50 timer I went in as root and changed the entire snd subdirectory to root:users [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/snd total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root users 160 Jan 28 21:50 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 3400 Jan 29 02:50 .. crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 2 Jan 28 21:50 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 4 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 3 Jan 29 13:05 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 5 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D2c crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 1 Jan 28 21:50 seq crw-rw---- 1 root users 116, 33 Jan 28 21:50 timer ...and now sound works fine as regular user. Thank you very much for the solution. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
