On 29/04/2013 11:20, Kevin Thompson wrote: > I had the same issue here when installing pulseaudio. I don't use GNOME, > so that does take part of the equation away. The problem was solved by > changing permissions to /dev/snd and it's containing files. After > chmodding /dev/snd/* to 666, I was able to play sounds as a normal user. > In the Gentoo guide, it mentions this, and it also mentions taking your > user out of the audio group if you're currently in it. Please see > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Root_can_play_sound.2C_other_users_cannot > for more detailed information.
Why not rather configure udev to make /dev/snd 660, group owned by audio, and all human users who need sound are in the audio group? These 666/777 "solutions" are just bad -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
