problems with alsa/sblive value/kde3

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

Hey all,

Here's a weird one...I've got the alsa driver compiled and working just fine. I tried playing a test .wav file with asound from the command line, and that worked just fine. But for some reason, I can't play any sounds in KDE3. Any ideas?

+BroNNoS+ · Guest

Maybe you have to put the volume up in KDE? Serious, fire up KMix and see if you master volume is on and up. Mine wasn't at first. Don't forget to save your settings as default afterwards.

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

Kmix didn't even contain any volume settings. When I open kmix, i just get a blank box.

+BroNNoS+ · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:16 pm Post subject:

Have you tried this from the installation guide?:

Note: If kmix cannot find a mixer, then it probably thinks you don't have sound support. Log out and remove ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc and ~/.kde/share/config/kmix:* then log in again. This time it should find the sound mixer properly.

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

yes i did...still no luck.

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

ok this is weird...when i log into kde as root, i can play sounds just fine. However, when I use a non-root user, it won't play sounds at all. Any idea how to fix that?

+BroNNoS+ · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:07 pm Post subject:

Aha, you have got to make the users part of the group 'sound'. It is in the installation guide, but it's a bit hidden.

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

Alright i fixed it...

had to change the perms on /dev/dsp*.

+BroNNoS+ · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:11 pm Post subject:

Actually it's group 'audio':

Note: Notice that devfsd.conf sets /dev/sound permissions to be root.audio. Thus, for non-root users to use audio they will have to be part of the audio group.

ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

yeah i saw that too. I just changed the perms to world read/write.