Problems with sound

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:54:08AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   It was a PEBKAC error.  I built the new kernel but forgot to make it
> the default at bootup.  They say that memory is the second thing to go,
> I forget what the first is.
> 
>   Anyhow I had ALSA 1.0.13 in the kernel, with 1.0.14 alsa-lib and
> alsa-utils.  That obviously doesn't work.  OK, so I've now set up the
> kernel properly, and rebooted, re-emerged alsa-lib and alsa-utils and
> audacious and audacious-plugins, but am still having the same problems
> (audacious and mpg123 which use ALSA, die; Realplayer and mpg321 get by
> with the OSS api on ALSA).  revdep-rebuild doesn't find anything wrong.
> What do I do now to recover ALSA functionality?  emerge --world?

What permissions are on your alsa sound devices?  What group do they
belong to?  Is your user in that group?

As for doing things with emerge...  Don't get me started on Gentoo.  You
don't want to know.

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