Only root hears sounds, alsa gives "permission denied"

Baix · 07-02-2005, 11:53 AM

HI there,
I'm using version 1.0.8 of alsa-utils and the built in alsa driver in the 2.6.11 kernel. For some reason only root can hear sounds, when other users try (in this case playing a gaim sound) they get:

Code:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:550:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:387:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib confmisc.c:945:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3463:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: Permission denied
ALSA lib conf.c:3932:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
ALSA lib pcm.c:2068:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

I read somewhere that this may have to do with uDev and something with 00 permissions but it got me even more confused and I can't seem to figure out how to go about fixing this. Thanks for any help!

acid_kewpie · 07-02-2005, 12:05 PM

i get easily lost with how apps interact with ALSA, but AFAIK they don't primarily use /dev entries, so udev won't come into it. you'd only use /dev/sound etc... if you were using ALSA's OSS emulation modules. instead the permissions for access are set within the asound.conf, e.g. "ipc_perm 0666" for each device. if it IS a /dev entry and i'm wrong again, then it's normally jsut a case of changing the relevant entries in /etc/udev/permissions/50-udev.permissions (or adding your own overlay file, starting with a number less than 50) for entries matching /dev/sound/* and /dev/snd/*

Baix · 07-02-2005, 12:39 PM

Not sure if I understood a word of that lol. How would I go about "changing the relevant entries in /etc/udev/permissions/50-udev.permissions (or adding your own overlay file, starting with a number less than 50) for entries matching /dev/sound/* and /dev/snd/*"

acid_kewpie · 07-02-2005, 01:22 PM

huh? it's a file. edit it.

Baix · 07-02-2005, 01:30 PM

I wasn't sure of the syntax of the file or what the relavent entries would be. Anyway I found a simple enough solution something when I updated a lot of things must of caused me to need to add users to the audio group, I've never needed to do that prior to updating