Re: Sound PLEASE

[Sam Steele <chip c99 org>]

According to your permissions, the audio group doesn't have any rights
to the sound card, only root does.  you should try chmod g+rwx /dev/dsp
/dev/mixer ...

Unless I have something backwards, the first set of letters for ls -al
are for owner, the next set are for group, and the last set are for
"everyone else".  ls is saying that only root has rw access, --- for
group, and --- for everyone else.

Well, unless you're running garnome as root, then you've got access to
it no matter what, but that's usually not such a good idea, and Nautilus
will make it a point to inform you of that every time you start it :)

-Sam

On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 01:16, Ahmad Baitalmal wrote:
> Ok, just finished building Garnome 0.10.6 I thought It was just me (but
> it turns out, it's just me ! )
> I can't get any gnome2 sounds to happen. The instance gnome2 starts it's
> pops up a message about the mixer applet couldn't access /dev/mixer, I
> should check permissions or compile sound support into my kernel (the
> nerve of some software to suggest that I don't have sound support
> compiled into my kernel !! )
> 
> Every time gnome wants to make a sound it goes into 3-4 seconds of 100%
> cpu usage and prints the following in the console:
> 
> 
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
> Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
> Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
> Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
> Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
> Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal.
> 
> 
> Here are the permissios in my /dev/sound 
> 
> 
> drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Dec 31  1969 ./
> drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Dec 31  1969 ../
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   4 Dec 31  1969 audio
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   3 Dec 31  1969 dsp
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   5 Dec 31  1969 dspW
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   2 Dec 31  1969 midi
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   0 Dec 31  1969 mixer
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   1 Dec 31  1969 sequencer
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   8 Dec 31  1969 sequencer2
> 
> 
> And here are the links from /dev to the midi and the mixer
> 
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Jun  4 11:29 midi -> sound/midi
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Jun  4 11:29 mixer -> sound/mixer
> 
> 
> So I'm thinking, it's probably an esd bug in gnome2.. so I drop into the
> console and give it an
> esdplay /usr/share/sounds/blabla.wav
> That gives me the "Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal." messages
> 
> I go to tty1, log in as the same user it works. So I thought it could be
> a path thing,, 
> I went back to gnome2, opened up a term, set the EXACT environment as my
> shell access (using source) and it still won't work.. Yes the user is a
> member of the audio group, and yes sound works in gnome 1.4 that accout.
> 
> I was hoping it was something that would get fixed in the new Garnome,,
> but it's not .. Please,, any pointers,, anywhere?
> 
> 
> BTW, I'm on a Mandrake 8.2 ( and loving it :)
> Thank you ,
> 
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