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Greatn it works...but only root can play midi files...i can't understand why! Any suggestion? Have anice day
Add your user to the group "audio". (should be audio, you can check by typing "ls -l /dev/sound".)
All of the files in /dev/sound should belong to root, but be part of group "audio" and have read-write for group. If your user is a member of the audio group, you'll be able to use those devices.
Hi killerbob,
thank you for your answer but my user ia already member of audio group. The files permission of sound devices are correct....so i'm a bit confuseed! Have anice day
To play a midi file as a non-root user, I have to log in as root, start KDE and play a file using kmid (maybe some other software could do the job, but it didn't work with pmidi...)
From this point, I can play midi files using any software on any user account, until I reboot...
It suggests me that under root permissions, the kmid softwares does something special that, if we could isolate, it would probably solve our problem... (if I just use kmid with normal user account, before using the 'trick', it doesn't produce any sound...)
By the way, the "test midi" button in KDE control center never worked... is it the same for you ^
Did it work with anybody using:
Slackware 10.1
KDE 3.4 upgraded from precompiled packages
Sound blaster live (emu10k1)
awesfx 5.0
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