Re: No sound device found when trying to play MP3

[Remco van de Meent <remco vandemeent net>]

Stanislav Okhvat wrote:
> I just installed Red Hat 7 and configured sound under the root user.
> The root user doesn't have any problems with sound events or playing
> mp3. However, the other user that I registered for myself doesn't
> have sound. When I try to play MP3s it says that the sound device
> cannot be found. Sound events in wm cannot be heard either. I figure
> I need to chmod some directories so the user can be allowed to use
> the sound device, but which ones?

Look at the permissions of /dev/dsp for example. It's probably
writeable for people in the "audio" group so you need to add the user
to that group.


cheers,
Remco.