Frank Barknecht wrote: > >> This is not my case. albmont is not in the audio group. Should this >> be a problem?
[BTW: I fixed this, adding albmont to the audio group, and it still doesn't work - but I see some progress: there's a different error now] > Many distributions allow only members of group audio access to the > audio devices. But you could just make yourself a member with some of > your distribtions management tools like "adduser" or "useradd" (or > even just editing "/etc/group" by hand and adding your username > manually, but better use your dist's tools) > I did it with linuxconf :-) Now I have a new error: a 5-second wav file takes an infinite time to aplay, with no sound output. I have to abort and kill it. >> aplay doesn't work either. Usually it gives an error message, >> like "aplay: main:503: audio open error: Permission denied" > > This reeks of permission errors on the audio devices. Could you > recreate the devices with the snddevices script from the ALSA > distribution? > Is that a good idea? The manual says that snddevices shouldn't be used after 0.9.something. > You could also try a "chmod -v o+rw /dev/snd/*" to make > them world read- and writeable, which in general is not so > recommended, though. > I will save this hint for the next batch of trial-and-error attempts :-/ > Better have them owned by root.audio "chown > root.audio /dev/snd/*" and mode 660: "chmod 660 /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp* > ..." so that only members of group audio are allowed to use them. > Did that. Same error: aplay takes an infinite time to run, etc. Ok, I will recreate the snddevices and see what happens. No. Same error: aplay takes an infinite time to run, etc. > If aplay doesn'T work also, it's not an error with OSS-emulation, but > "lsmod | grep oss" should show them like: > > $ /sbin/lsmod | grep oss > snd-seq-oss 29600 0 (unused) > snd-pcm-oss 38436 0 > snd-mixer-oss 13304 0 [snd-pcm-oss] > snd-seq-midi-event 3552 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-virmidi] > snd-seq 38352 2 [snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul > snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm > 61156 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ice1712] snd-seq-device > 4208 0 [snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss > snd-seq snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd 31012 0 > [snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss > snd-virmidi snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-emu10k1 > snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ice1712 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec > snd-cs8427 snd-i2c snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device > snd-ak4xxx-adda] > > (You probably don't have the same cards as I do) > Oops. lsmod | grep oss returns _no_ lines at all. What does it mean? Alberto Monteiro ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
