Sond for users

jimloco · 11-02-2003, 08:57 PM

I am having a couple of strange problems. THe one I come here today with is I used alsaconf to setup my sis 7012 (Intel8X0) cound card and it works fine for the user root but for everyone else the sound is distorted and cuts to nothing but static most of the time.

oh yeah, I am running slacckware 9.1, 2.4.22 kernal

Jim

exodist · 11-02-2003, 09:10 PM

chmod 777 /dev/snd* /dev/dsp* /dev/mix*
that shoudl fix, basically you are giving permissions for everyone to use the devices.

Robert0380 · 11-02-2003, 09:37 PM

i know in gentoo, i have to add users to the audio group. but what exodist said should work.

jimloco · 11-02-2003, 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by exodist
chmod 777 /dev/snd* /dev/dsp* /dev/mix*
that shoudl fix, basically you are giving permissions for everyone to use the devices.

nope, basically my user logins get staticy noise mixed with bits of the real sounds.
Not only have I tried the above but I have also tried making them members of the sys group (I have no Audio group)

exodist · 11-02-2003, 10:20 PM

that sounds like a driver error, are you sure sound works for root?

jimloco · 11-03-2003, 01:15 AM

Yes it works beautiful for root

exodist · 11-03-2003, 02:07 AM

I am not sure whats wrong then.. never had scrambled sound, eather full or none. what card?

does google reveal similar problems anywhere?