No sound

[Llhorian]

Whenever I try to run esdplay I get:
/dev/dsp: Permission denied.

How do set this right, how do I fix it so I can just play music files and such?

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--Llhorian
'Linux, it's a little bit different.'

[wmHardRock]

This topic has been discussed many times over. Please search the forum. Also, I'm sure that you can find an answer by reading the man pages, or the /usr/doc/esdplay files

[mis]

as root do

chmod 666 /dev/dsp

[Pierre Lambion]

Do you know if this chmod could be a security risk?
I did chgrp users to get sound and I did it on lp0 to be able to cat prints to it.
It's very convenient, but what for security?
I guess I could do an appart group for dsp and lp0 and put myself in it. It would be cleaner at least.

Pierre