On 07/02/2009 05:31 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jonathan Kamens (jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us) said: 
  
No, I think it's because permissions aren't being set properly on the  
devices in /dev/snd:
    
Permissions should be handled via ACL, which ls won't show.
  
Well, then, perhaps the ACLs are wrong.  At least, it sure seems that way (terminal cut-and-paste colorized by me for readability):

jik2:~!1011$ xmms
Message: device: default

** WARNING **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:0 failed: Permission denied
[xmms fails to play music properly]

jik2:~!1012$ sudo chown jik /dev/snd/*
[sudo] password for jik:
jik2:~!1013$ xmms
Message: device: default
[xmms plays music with no trouble]

jik2:~!1014$


  jik