Jason
Check the permissions on your alsa device file. By default this is
/dev/dsp(1?). if you do a "ls -l /dev/dsp*" you should see what
the permissions are. Mine looks like this:
jason@martensjason:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 9 03:18 /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 9 03:18 /dev/dsp1
Hmm.... comes up as...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2004-10-21 18:44 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2004-10-21 18:44 /dev/dsp0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 2004-10-21 18:44 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 2004-10-21 18:44 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 2004-10-21 18:44 /dev/dsp3
If you want to change the permissions of the device file (not
recommended) you can run "chmod 777 /dev/dsp*" as root.
Tried this and still get...
" failed to open audio output Alsa 1.2.10 output plugin"
in a Gtk GUI based error messsage..