Hello, On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Andrew Lowe wrote: > If I log in as my usual user, alsaplayer will run the song. If I then > "su" >into root, I'm in wheel, alsaplayer will play the song. The problem is that >when the emerge runs, then fails, alsaplayer can't appear to fire up. When an >emerge fails, I get the usual error listings then the following: > > * ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/snd/controlC0 > * ACCESS DENIED: open_wr: /dev/snd/controlC0 >ALSA lib >/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/confmisc.c:674:(snd_determine_driver) >could not open control for card 0 >ALSA lib >/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/alsa-lib-1.1.9/work/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/conf.c:3572:(snd_config_hooks_call) >function snd_config_hook_load_for_all_cards returned error: Permission denied
You'd probably need to add portage to the "audio" group ... HTH, -dnh -- Sorry, I don't know how to help in this situation. Maybe you should try asking a human? -- a TeX message
