-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
[...] > You are right of course. play is an alias for sox on my system. > They give different output on the terminal, but otherwise they > behave the same: sound as root no sound as user. perhaps you might want to try strace, redirecting output to a file, like strace -f -o <tracefile> play foo once as normal user, once as root and try to compare the outputs (the -f option is there for strace to follow child processes on fork). It'll be a lot of output, but perhaps you can spot some relevant differences. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlahO04ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbXUgCdHYkJR8JYBECKkdjfI6uMMfMh Y04AnR93NLpfJbR8NDpgQ7eNRU+kYMey =Ep59 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----