On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:42:51 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1506181037530.5863@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, King Beowulf wrote:
> 
> > make sure /dev/snd are root:root and perms 755; contents are
> > root:audio with perms 660 and suid on execution.
> 
> Ed,
> 
>    Yes, /dev/snd/ is 755 and owned by root:root.
> 
>    What I don't understand is why the xmms warning message tells me
> that oss_open() failed to open /dev/dsp. Since OSS has been
> deprecated why is alsa calling oss_open()?

Alsa is not calling oss; alsa is the _replacement_ for oss.  XMMS
is calling oss, for whatever reason.  Check the output plugins for
XMMS; you'll probably find an oss plugin.

Just a data point.

--Dale

-- 
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr.  Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
    -- Charles Babbage

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