On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:58 AM, John H. Robinson, IV <jh...@ucsd.edu>wrote:
> Thomas Moore wrote:
> >
> > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
> >
> > What have I failed to do here?
>
> Check the permissions on the various sound devices. Likely they are
> root:audio. Make sure that yo are in the audio group. You may need to
> log out and log back in again if you have to add yourself to the audio
> group.
>
> On my Debian 5.0 system I have the following alsa devices:
>
> /dev/adsp
> /dev/audio
> /dev/dsp
> /dev/mixer
> /dev/rtc0
> /dev/sequencer
> /dev/sequencer2
> /dev/snd/controlC0
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D1c
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D2c
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D3c
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D4p
> /dev/snd/seq
> /dev/snd/timer
>
I don't quite have all of those devices on my CentOS 5 system. The ones I
have are uniformly cdl:root
Also there is no group "audio". Obviously this is a different flavor of OS.
carl
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