On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:15:06 +0300 "Dr. Dan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all, > > another problem......... > As i have said before , with this new mother board with ALS650 chip > and alsa 0.9 rec2, > logged on as root, xmms seems to play mp3s and wav etc, but no sound > comes out of the speaker, > but logged in next as a normal user without reboot inbetween, trying > to play a file in xmms gives an error dialog box: > > couldn't open audio > please check that > 1 you have the correct out put pluging slected (I do, it is esound) > 2 no other prog is blocking soundcard (how do I > check???????) > 3 your sound card is configure properly (should be same > as for root, as I was logged in a minute ago , without restarting) > > the cd player gives sound and gnome panel applet volume control works. > > why does it matter who i am logged on as?????????? In a word -- device permissions. If you as a regular user don't have write access to the audio devices, it won't work. The recommended way to do it is to make the audio devices belong to group audio and make them group writable. Then add any regular users allowed to use the audio devices to that group. James -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
