Ken Moffat wrote:
Ooh, who needs alsamixer when you can cat to /dev/audio ;-)
Hehe...
Thanks for your help Ken. I should have found this solution before even
asking for help.
Running xmms in a terminal actually allowed me to play sounds, to my
surprise. I was running as root, which made the problem fairly clear.
Only root had write access permissions to the required devices.
The solution I'm not too sure about. The /dev directory has always been
a bit mysterious to me, especially with udev. I put all the sound
devices into the group 'audio' and gave them all group write permission.
I then added my standard user to the audio group as well. This is just
what made sense to me, I'm not sure how 'proper' a solution it is.
Ryan
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