[MPlayer-users] Not able to hear sound on Solaris when Mplayer is used

[Nico Sabbi]

Narendra Kumar S.S wrote:

>Hi,
>
>       I have mplayer installed on Solaris-10 on AMD-64 Opteron box.
>
>       I am trying to play a ".wmv" file using mplayer.
>       I am able to see the video, but there is no sound.
>       When I play the same file using gmplayer, I am able to hear the
>sound.
>
>       If I use the option "mplayer -ao sun <.wmv>", I am able to hear
>sound.
>       But, when I become super-user and execute mplayer, I don't have to
>give any option. It plays the file without any problem.
>
>  
>

then it's a problem with the permissions of your sound device.
As root you can run update_drv (or drv_update, I don't remember
correctly) to change the permissions set by the driver
(man update_drv)