[NBLUG/talk] Sound card..

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> However, nothing will playback..  I keep getting error messages about not
> being able to access the device or /dev/sound/mixer type stuff..  I may have
> made matters worse by trying a few different sound architectures, I'm not
> really familiar with the differences and what's supposed to work with what I
> have and all..  It's a rather bothersome lack of consistency in sound
> drivers, but oh well.  I'm running Redhat 7.3 i386 on this box..

That sounds like a permissions error off of the top of my head.

On my box I have it setup like this:
_[error at eris:/dev] [Wed Jul 09] [10:56 AM]_
$ ls -al /dev/mixer*
crwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio     14,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  16 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  32 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  48 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer3
_[error at eris:/dev] [Wed Jul 09] [10:56 AM]_
$ ls -al /dev/mixer* /dev/dsp*
crwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  19 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  35 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  51 Mar 14  2002 /dev/dsp3
crwxrwxrwx    1 root     audio     14,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  16 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  32 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  48 Mar 14  2002 /dev/mixer3

and my user is:
_[error at eris:/dev] [Wed Jul 09] [10:57 AM]_
$ groups
error audio

Are you in your audio group?

also if you want to test your sound card Real Quick Now, give it this as
root:

cat /proc/kcore > /dev/dsp

Do you hear industrial noise yet?

;-)

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