Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:24:41 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: > fetch an audio stream (produced by > MPD/Icecast upstairs on a big PC) Answering your question with one of my own, what's the "big PC" running? I was under the impression that Icecast didn't currently get along well with Centos 5. (The

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > >> Yeah, unfortunatelly I don't know either. Never used systems for such >> thing, it's probably a udev issue. Easy solution is to chown user >> /dev/dsp and then add this command to rc.local. > > OK, I followed you

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > Yeah, unfortunatelly I don't know either. Never used systems for such > thing, it's probably a udev issue. Easy solution is to chown user > /dev/dsp and then add this command to rc.local. OK, I followed your quick & dirty hack. I have to be root to set the volume l

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : >> >> ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ? > > On my laptop: > > [kikino...@lifebook ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} > crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 4 jui  6 07:32 /dev/audio > crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 3 jui  6 07:32 /dev/d

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
luc...@lastdot.org a écrit : > > ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ? On my laptop: [kikino...@lifebook ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 4 jui 6 07:32 /dev/audio crw--- 1 kikinovak root 14, 3 jui 6 07:32 /dev/dsp And on the jukebox: [kikino...@jukebox ~]$ ls -al /dev/{dsp

Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread luc...@lastdot.org
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's > installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS > system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then > everything unchecke

[CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box with minimal system

2009-07-06 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, and vo