9.1 sound

snocked · 10-02-2003, 07:44 AM

Using ALSA from default installation and I have sound in XMMS and KDE under root and a user. No sound through shockwave flash/browser as a user, but there is sound for root using any browser. Obviously it's a permission issue. Any ideas?

littleking · 10-02-2003, 07:52 AM

my sound works thru XMMS but no where else, everything worked fine in 9.0

littleking · 10-02-2003, 08:11 AM

actually sound works in kde but not gnome

snocked · 10-02-2003, 09:59 PM

Azmeen · 10-02-2003, 11:34 PM

I got something similar... but I pinpointed the "problem" when I was trying to use the ALSA output plugin in XMMS... there'll be an error saying that can't output to /dev/mixer... sorry, I really can't recall (the italics bit is GUESSWORK).

All I had to do is chmod -R 777 /dev/mixer and it works for all user.

If XMMS doesn't give you an error output, press Ctrl-Alt F1* and see the last error line, that is the path you have to chmod. Use Alt F7 to return to your X session.

Hope this helps

* Assuming you started X from tty1.

forky · 10-02-2003, 11:39 PM

Try this:

chmod +s /usr/bin/esd
chmod +rw /dev/mixer* /dev/dsp*

snocked · 10-03-2003, 04:37 AM

It works now. Thank you both for your help.

Angelo · 10-03-2003, 11:40 AM

The PROPER way to get sound working in this case would have been to add yourself to the 'sys' group.

As root do: usermod -G sys <username>

You'll notice that all the sound devices such as:

/dev/dsp*
/dev/snd/pcm*

are owned by root:sys and have permissions: crw-rw--w-

Of course, it will work if you just change the permissions, but that's a really dirty way to do it. Permissions are set for reasons

Azmeen · 10-03-2003, 07:37 PM

Angelo... that does seem more graceful, maybe I've ran Slack as single user machine for far too long

... really need to change my mindset a bit.