/dev/dsp not honouring permission settings

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:36:48 -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> > Put your users which should be able to listen to sound / using /dev/dsp
> > into the group sound.
>
> No luck.  For some reason, none of the users in the sound group are able to access /dev/dsp.
>

Do you have a sound server running which might be blocking the sound
device, e.g. KDE's aRtsd?

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