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Walter Dnes wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:40:50AM -0700, gentuxx wrote
>
>>OK, I tried that and I have/can verify that I am in the audio group.
>>Logged out, then back in, even did a reboot. No joy. Now here's the
>>weird thing. mplayer works fine, for both video (sound with movies)
>>and audio (mp3s). But none of the GUI apps (XMMS, JuK, etc.) seem
>>to output any sound. As a matter of fact, XMMS errors out that it
>>"failed to open the audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin". And I
>>don't get any of the "blips and whirrs" from the desktop interaction
>>(minimizing windows, etc.).
>>
>>Any more ideas?
>
>
> Two questions...
>
> 1) Run the command "ls -al /dev/sound/". What's the output ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/sound
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     220 Sep 10 11:27 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   29720 Sep 11 03:10 ..
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14, 12 Sep 10 11:27 adsp
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14,  4 Sep 10 11:27 audio
crw-------   1 root audio 14, 20 Apr 10 15:18 audio1
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14,  3 Sep 10 11:27 dsp
crw-------   1 root audio 14, 19 Apr 10 15:18 dsp1
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14,  0 Sep 10 11:27 mixer
crw-------   1 root audio 14, 16 Apr 10 15:18 mixer1
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14,  1 Sep 10 11:27 sequencer
crw-rw----   1 root audio 14,  8 Sep 10 11:27 sequencer2

>
> 2) Are you familiar with PAM? (That will determine how we proceed to
>solve your problem, if it's what I think it is).
>
Well, it depends on how "familiar" you mean.  ;-)  I know what it is.
I'm relatively comfortable with configuring it, but I haven't changed
anything from the default, with the exception of pam_cracklib.


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