i am aware of the permission trap, and no, sound does not work as root either ...
there must be something else wrong. martin On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:19:23AM -0400, C. Schanck wrote: > On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:04 pm, Martin A. Hansen wrote: > > hi there > > > > i upgraded my kernel from 2.4.17 to 2.4.19. > > > > i used to have alsa working, but now it dont anymore. > > > > i compile my own alsa package with make-kpkg. > > > > the speakers click when i start alsa. alsamixer seems to be working, but i > > can get no soundprograms to make any sound. mpg123, alsaplayer, xmms, aplay > > ... they all hang. > > > > i did run /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices > > > > and i did remove isapnp.h from /usr/include/linux as suggested on > > alsa-project.org before compiling. > > > > what do i do? > > > > martin > > My number one thing that goes wrong when I muck with my kernel is my > permissions getting screwed up for my sound devices. Simple test: does XMMS > work when you run it as root? Login as root and try it. If it does, then it > is a perms problem. The fix is to go to /dev/* and chmod everything in group > audio, or anything that seems even remotely sound related (mixer*, dsp* etc.) > to be world rwx. > > This happens to me repeatedly. > > Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
