No sound in zsnes unless run with sudo

[Giorgos]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:19 +0100, Tobias Heinemann wrote:
> > Thanks for taking the time to outline the solutions. I think it's easier
> > to just run it with sudo. It's not like I'm afraid it'll do something to
> > my system.
> 
> I don't know whether this has already been suggested but you can also try to 
> start zsnes with "esddsp zsnes" instead of "sudo zsnes". esddsp is in the 
> "esound-clients" package.
> 
> Regards,
> Tobi
> 

It seems I've found the solution, it's a general sdl thing, the
environment variable SDL_AUDIODRIVER needs to be set to a working value,
I reported this to the sdl mailing list and awaiting response.