xmms only playing mp3 as root

[Johan Scheepers]

Good day,

When tested xmms on mp3,  I was logged in as root.

As user it complains ..

[johan at johan ~]$ xmms
Message: device: default

** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No 
such file or directory

As root it plays but..

[root at johan ~]# xmms
Message: device: default

** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*".

****** Well there is no such file as    /dev/dsp   ********** on my system


Kindly some pointers please.
Johan