Matthew Bryant Baxa wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
>
> > I used gom as the mixer. When I booted the 2.4.2 kernel (witeh the
same
> > /etc/modules) and tried to play a song I got this:
> > "Cannot open audio device. Please make sure that the audio device is
> > properly configured."
> >
> > And when I try to use gom I get this:
> >
> > gom ERROR: Can't open mixer device special file "/dev/mixer": No
such
> > gom: device. Error help: if loading a mixer special file leads to
"No
> > such
> > gom: device", then you most likely do have the kernel sound driver
> > gom: not or incorrectly installed. "Permission denied" means you
> > gom: need permissions by the local admin in the first place.
> > gom:
> > gom: Current channel information
> > gom: ---------------------------
> > gom:
> > gom: No Name Rec Volumes Vol-0 Vol-1 Locked
> > gom: 0.vol -1 -1 -1 -1 1
> > ....
> > But there is a file named /dev/mixer !!!!
> > ....
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 mixer
> I used to have this problem until I finally remembered that as
a user I didnt have permission
to use the mixer device. Try adding yourself to the audio group.
I'm already a member of the audio group ! Otherwise I wouldn't be able
to play music using the 2.2.17
kernel.
Even root gets an error trying to run gom.
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