[NBLUG/talk] Permissions problem with audio device

Troy Arnold troy at zenux.net
Mon Dec 20 15:19:54 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:12:24PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> It seems that the permissions were not the problem.  I had tested my
> sound using XMMS, which was set to output sound using the ALSA driver.
> When I switched to another output plugin (aRts or OSS), it worked just
> fine.
> 
> Oh well, as long as it works now (and it will stay working), I'm
> inclined to leave it set up this way.

One more thing...

Did you run 'alsaconf' ?  It's a big (but clean and fairly
well-commented) shell script, and its got some stuff in there about
changing permissions for the alsa devices.


-troy




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