Hello, Walt. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 04:23:14PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 03/20/2012 03:31 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, all.
> > Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs > > (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, > > when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as > > www.tagesschau.de (no idea what audio format) it works. > > Clearly this is something to do with mdev. I had a look at the devices > > in /dev, searching for those in group audio. Under udev, I find the > > following as device nodes: > > adsp audio dsp mixer mixer1 sequencer sequencer2. > > Under mdev, all of these bar one are symlinks into the real nodes in a > > subdirectory. The odd man out is mixer1 which is a device node, but > > with owner/group begin root/root (rather than root/audio). > > Can anybody suggest any fix, or further areas of exploration? Thanks! > Can you do chown root:audio on the mixer as a test? Done so. It didn't help. It's mightily curious why that one device is different from the others. It's not so under udev. Anyhow I found the problem. It was pulseaudio. I rebuilt it with its udev use flag taken out. This didn't help. Then I rebuilt aqualung without the pulseaudio flag, and now things work. As I type, I am listening to Mahler's second symphony, played by the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jonathan Nott. I can recomment Mahler for when things aren't going quite according to plan, and this recording in particular. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
