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

[Nico Sabbi]

The Wanderer wrote:

>In the console output from the message in which he(?) was using 1.0pre8,
>he gets a similar no-such-file message on /dev/dsp, but this time from
>-ao oss. Again, that does not sound like a permissions issue to me.
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surprising: /dev/dsp is specific to OSS, that by default Solaris
doesn't integrate (yet)

>We do not have the console output from a "successful" run, as root, so
>we do not know what AO method was being used there. Theoretically, it is
>at least faintly possible that root has a config file setting which
>specifies -ao sun (or some other functioning AO) by default.
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>>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)
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>Permissions on what, exactly, given that /dev/dsp does not appear to
>exist?
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permissions on the devices that the driver allocates: /dev/audio*