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Old 11-14-2005, 10:01 PM   #1
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sound problems

I am running Gentoo 2005.1 on an AMD64 with nForce4 chip. I had my sound stuff working fine with ALSA, and then installing all of the sound software for KDE. I kept installing stuff, and my group file broke. I fixed it, and everything works, except for the sound. I get permission errors whenever I try and start a sound related program. My user is in audio and cdrom groups, but when I insert a CD and try to start KsCD, I get a permission error in /hda. Any ideas?
 
Old 11-15-2005, 05:39 AM   #2
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Does THIS seem like your problem?
Last edited by vectordrake; 11-15-2005 at 03:57 PM.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 06:45 AM   #3
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Does THIS seem like your problem?
VectorDrake, your link re-directs to microsoft.com, is this some sort of joke?
 
Old 11-15-2005, 06:54 AM   #4
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http://coreythompson.com/linux/sound.html

^ This is the correct one.

http://http//coreythompson.com/linux/sound.html

I wonder why this one ends up in microsoft.com ?
 
Old 11-15-2005, 09:19 AM   #5
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No, I am running alsasound and it was already started by default. I think its more a permission issue than anything else, but I am unsure why I can't run it down. Like I said, I fixed my group file, and I have tried all sorts of permission changes on the individual files, but no luck.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 09:26 AM   #6
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Have you tried running alsaconf as root? - sorry, could be a silly suggestion but it quite often sorts sound issues for me
 
Old 11-15-2005, 09:35 AM   #7
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what type of sound/audio chip are you using?

i have an onboard AC97 that is worthless and impossible to use, i had to disable it in the BIOS, and i bought a CreativeLabs SoundBlaster PCI card - works great...
 
Old 11-15-2005, 09:38 AM   #8
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I have the same sound chipset (cos I'm a cheapskate n don't do expensive sound cards :P) and its worked fine on every distro I've tried. Had more bother with it in Windows than anything else.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 09:45 AM   #9
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Don't pay much attention. I have AC97 and I'm using it. So it's definitely possible to use. Worthless? Not for me. I happen to be a sound professional and very demanding if it comes to quality. I find AC97 very useful if I need to get some sound out of my PC.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 10:45 AM   #10
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Quote:
Originally posted by Emerson
http://coreythompson.com/linux/sound.html

^ This is the correct one.

http://http//coreythompson.com/linux/sound.html

I wonder why this one ends up in microsoft.com ?
In Konqueror it just gives me an error message. Perhaps it's because gravesb was using IE.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 10:51 AM   #11
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hey! you are right! i downloaded the current alsa sources and there is AC97 drivers! i should un-install the ones provided with my distro and compile from source and use AC97 since it has S/PDIF in & out too...

sorry about that, my bad...

my creativelabs sound card (es1371) is a cheap one, i paid under 20 US dollars for it...
 
Old 11-15-2005, 11:45 AM   #12
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works great now, the audio is muted on boot, but i dont reboot very often since i don't use Windows, and only have one Linux distro installed in this machine...

thanks again for bringing this to my attention
 
Old 11-15-2005, 12:16 PM   #13
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Good for you.
There is a file with some tuneables /etc/conf.d/alsasound

RESTORE_ON_START="yes"
SAVE_ON_STOP="yes"

This will hopefully fix things for you.

As long as gravesb is considered I generally avoid KDE and can't be much help. One thing is a little weird though. Is your cdrom really /dev/hda ?
 
Old 11-15-2005, 01:12 PM   #14
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In Konqueror it just gives me an error message. Perhaps it's because gravesb was using IE.
I'm not sure if IE does this as well, but having http://http//website-address come out to meaning look for the files/directories of website-address on the domain http using the http protocol (First http being the protocol, second the domain). With FireFox atleast, if you just put a word into your address bar without .com,org,net etc, firefox will google the word and send you to the first result. Try it. Googling http and hitting I'm feeling lucky gives you microsoft.com. Putting http into your address bar gets you microsoft.com.
 
Old 11-15-2005, 01:23 PM   #15
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Re: sound problems
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Originally posted by gravesb
I get a permission error in /hda. Any ideas?
You meant /dev/hda, didn't you?

A quick fix :

Code:
chmod 777 /dev/hda
 
  


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