On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:35:40AM -0800, James Board wrote: > >Your problem is not pulseaudio, it's your audio system below that. And by attacking pulseaudio developers >or me (I am a pulseaudio user and linux system administrator, no developer) you will not change that. > > I didn't attack pulseaudio developers.? I only suggested that they create a trouble-shooting page for people to solve simple problems like playing music files. > Skipping the silly analogies for a moment, let's find out why you don't have permission to access the sound devices. On my system (results truncated): $ ls -l /dev/snd crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Dec 3 06:59 controlC0 The device is owned by root and in group 'audio' and has owner:rw and group:rw permissions. $ groups network video audio optical storage power users This shows my user is in the 'audio' group, so I have permission to read/write the control device. As a result, PulseAudio is able to open the device and play audio for me. What's different on your system? Andrew
