On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:02:08 +0100 Marc Blanc <arsace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > sound right in root but not in user... :( I seem to recall this happened to me once as well. I ran strace on the "aplay" utility while playing a .wav file to see what it was trying to open, found that file, chmodded it to be accessible, and it stayed that way after that. I think some random update must have given it the wrong permission, but subsequent updates don't seem to have screwed it back up, sound keeps working.