Sound in KDE FC4

[david walcroft]

Charles Heselton wrote:
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>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of david walcroft
>>Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 6:46 PM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Sound in KDE FC4
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>>Hi
>>  I still seem to have problems in getting Alsa to work with
>>KDE,OSS works ok but Alsa brings up an error that "device: default
>>can't be  opened for playback (Permission denied)" when starting in
>>Sound System.
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>>I tried this "cat /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > /dev/dsp"
>>and returned distortion and screeching.
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>>Any ideas as to what is going on please
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> Are trying this as root or another user?  I had a problem where the
> sound would work in root, but not as a normal user.  Adding the user
> to the "audio" group worked for me.
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No I'm  using it as user and there is no "audio" in groups only david:root
owner:group in /dev/snd,dcp,audio,*

  david