Odd ALSA problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:58:11 +0100, Paul wrote:

> All users of my main box are members of the group "sound". /dev/dsp* is
> set to belong to root.sound so that all members can have access to the
> sound system.
> 
> If I log in as the other half, xmms works fine. Log in as my son and
> xmms is fine. Log in as me and xmms is fine. Good so far.
> 
> When I log out and the other half logs in xmms won't play - the error
> about another application blocking the sound comes up. When I go to the
> options on xmms, only the default device is available instead of all of
> the other devices on the box (it uses Creative Audigy as the main sound
> card while Intel 8x0 is the onboard sound system).
> 
> I can't do anything other than reset for the other half to get sound
> back.

Is this with KDE or GNOME? Is a sound server running? e.g. artsd in
KDE or esd in GNOME?