[MPlayer-users] `user2' cannot listen to audio

[Ivo]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 21:22, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > I have had some
> > related problems where /dev/dsp gets locked by the first user.
>
> `ls -l /dev/dsp' gives:
>
>  crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2005-02-26 07:39 /dev/dsp
>
> , but as I said user1 and user2 are both members of the `audio' group.

Perhaps user2 has bad volume control default settings, muting the device or 
setting the volume to zero (like kmix under kde, gnome probably has 
something similar).

--Ivo