Sound? Yes. If I am root.

[mjjohansen]

You may remember my previous post about using OSS. This seems to work now, except I can only play sound as root. I find that a bit unfortunate.
Could anyone give me a clue as to what I am missing? The only files I know that are relevant for OSS are /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp.
I use Audacious, and it speaks of default mixer. This is what, now?

[engelsman]

On previous installs I remember having to add myself to the 'audio' group, but since my last
re-install I haven't done that and I can play the audio without problem. If I ls /dev/sound
however, I see that all of the files are owned by me, with group = audio, even though I don't
remember running chown... so maybe something else takes care of ownership.

[mjjohansen]

Hm. It seems that even if I chown the files, I still get zip. /me is puzzled.

[ElAngelo]

what is the output of the command "groups" if you use it as your own user (so not as root)

[mjjohansen]

I made some group adjustments, so it reads:
wheel cdrom audio video games usb users
I still get the same result as my user. I have wheel as my default group.

[ElAngelo]

what's the output of the command `ls -l /dev/snd` after you logged in as your user?

[mjjohansen]

No such file or directory.

[sofar]

you might have removed PCM/OSS emulation support in alsa. Check your kernel config, if needed modprobe your snd-* modules.

[mjjohansen]

Does it matter, when I have ripped out ALSA? OSS and my via82cxxx_audio module is compiled in, and everything works when I modprobe the module. Still, only as root.