problems with sound :(

[Antonio Olivares]

> Dear fellow testers,
> 
> I am having problems with sound again.  I try to play a
> simple file with mplayer and I get 
> 
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ mplayer cachorros\ de\
> juan\ villarreal\ -\ Amancio\ Garza.mp3     
>                                                             
>        
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team            
>                     
> CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2080  @ 1.73GHz
> (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 12)                        
>                                               
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>                     
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2    
>                     
> 
> Playing cachorros de juan villarreal - Amancio Garza.mp3.
> Audio file file format detected.                         
> Clip info:                                               
>  Title: Amancio Garza                                    
>  Artist: Cachorros de Juan villarreal                    
>  Album: Norte�a                                          
>  Year:
>  Comment:
>  Track: 4
>  Genre: Other
> ==========================================================================
> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio:
> 16000->176400)
> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG
> layer-2, layer-3)
> ==========================================================================
> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp:
> Permission denied
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
> *** Is your sound server running?
> *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting
> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused
> [AO SDL] Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
> AO: [sdl] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Video: no video
> Starting playback...
> A:  24.1 (24.1) of 188.0 (03:08.0)  1.1%
> 
> MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
> 
> Running dmesg I can see some errors that are probably
> related:
> 
> SELinux:  Context system_u:object_r:user_mplayer_home_t:s0
> is not valid (left unmapped).                               
>                                         
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1404: azx_pcm_prepare:
> bufsize=0x10000, format=0x4011                              
>                                              
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x2, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011               
>                                        
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x3, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x4, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x5, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c:1404: azx_pcm_prepare:
> bufsize=0x10000, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x2, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x3, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x4, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:716: hda_codec_setup_stream:
> NID=0x5, stream=0x5, channel=0, format=0x4011
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728:
> hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x2
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728:
> hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x3
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728:
> hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x4
> ALSA sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c:728:
> hda_codec_cleanup_stream: NID=0x5
> mtrr: base(0xc0000000) is not aligned on a size(0x7b0000)
> boundary
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Antonio 
> 
> 
> -- 

To follow up on this, I became superuser (su -) and I was able to play the files without problem.  Will get back to both machines on Monday :)

Regards,

Antonio