Problems with sound

[Tyler Aviss]

Ahhh, good point. Does it work as root but not as a standard user
(which would indeed be a permissions issue). However, I assumed that
since it worked before this wasn't the case, but perhaps udev or
something of that ilk decided to rewrite the permissions on various
devices.

It might be an idea to check the permissions on some of these:
  /dev/snd*
  /dev/audio*
  /dev/mixer*

And if using udev or something of that sort:
  /dev/.static/snd*
  /dev/.static/audio*
  /dev/.static/mixer*

On 9/24/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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