I have a sound card in the machine that worked yesterday just fine and
now it doesn't seem to want to behave. If I play a sound as my user,
timh, it tells me I don't have permission to play the sound because I
can't access /dev/dsp. The file itself is mine and it's not that I
don't have rights to the file.
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ play File.wav
sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ ls -la File.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 timh timh 232928 Mar 19 06:04 File.wav
So I can play the file. As root though, I have no problem.
[root@r2d2 /root]# play /usr/share/licq/sounds/icq/System.wav
No error at all given. And the process is going.
root 8413 0.0 0.1 1416 500 pts/2 S 20:00 0:00 sox
/usr/share/licq/sounds/icq/System.wav -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
The only that changed would have been the addition of a second network
card, that was there previously but was moved since it stopped working
in that PCI slot. Why does this work for root and not any other user?
Can I just change there permissions to the /dev/dsp? Is it that simple?
Any help is greatly appreciated and needed.
Thanx!
tdh
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