As a normal user I cannot hear the music :-( Starting the program I got: tfoerste@n22 ~ $ pathological sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xa9' in file /usr/share/games/pathological/pathological.py on line 1851, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details Cannot load music: music/intro.xm Cannot load music: music/background.xm Cannot load music: music/intro.xm As root I have no problems. The user is in the following groups: n22 ~ # id tfoerste uid=1000(tfoerste) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),80(cdrw),250(portage) A sroot I got only the python warning. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr crypt cups curl dri dvd eds emboss encode fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping ncurses nls nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slp snmp spell sse sse2 ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales vorbis wifi xanim xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
chances are permissions problem ... either your /dev nodes are misconfigured or you're already running a sound daemon which is preventing access to the /dev nodes ...
*** Bug 162025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
