a stupid question about sound

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

the same thing happened to mpg321 too. as a regular user, I can't run
mpg321, only root can run mpg321 to play mp3 files.

TFC

On 3/11/06, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/10/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
> >    I got a situation, for some reason, only root can use audio device
> when
> > playing movies with mplayer on my freebsd 6.0/amd64 now, not user. But
> vlc
> > is fine for both. I guess there is some audio wrapper issue but couldn't
> put
> > a finger on it, any idea?
>
> If you do:
> ls -l /dev | grep dsp
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel       0,  38 Mar 10 00:57 dsp0.0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel       0,  41 Mar  6 12:43 dsp0.1
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel       0,  39 Mar  6 12:43 dspW0.0
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel       0,  42 Mar  6 12:43 dspW0.1
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root    wheel       0,  44 Mar  6 12:43 dspr0.1
>
> Does it look mostly like that?
>
> If you don't have a problem there, it might be with
> mplayer.  I noticed a minor update sometime in the
> last few days, but I haven't actually done the update.
>
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