[MPlayer-users] MPlayer-0.90rc1: No sound when playing a movie as normal user, but ok if root

[Papp Zoltan]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Eric wrote:

> I'm using RH-8.0 with Gnome2 and I have installed
> MPlayer-0.90rc1. If I want to play the trailer for the
> Lord of the rings: The two towers, then the video is
> fine but I got *no sound*. But if I'm root, video and
> sound are ok! If I use xmms or play Quake3 the sound
> is there...
When you are root or a normal user?

Anyway, it seems like some permission-problem. Check if you have write
permission to /dev/dsp.

	Padre