Gnome sound?

erikp · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 8

In terminal mode, "aplay" works fine, both as root and as non-privileged user but member of the audio group. I guess my kernel, modules and alsa-driver work fine, because I can "aplay" any audio file.

Unfortunately, gnome sends me a messagebox after logging in, saying that gnome cannot open /dev/sound/mixer.

At the same time, when I open an xterm in gnome, and I "aplay" a sound file, it works fine.

Does anybody know what is wrong?

ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

i did get the same error message. the solution was, that the permissions were not set correctly.take a look at the permissions for /dev/sound/mixer and /dev/sound/dsp.

good luck! :wink:

erikp · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 8

If the permissions were not correctly set, I would be able to use "aplay" as an unprivileged user from an xterm inside Gnome to play sound, would I?

The permissions are set to "root.audio", where my unprivileged user is member of "audio".

What else should I do?

pilla · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 12:07 pm Post subject:

Are group members allowed to write in the device?
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erikp · n00b Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 8

The permissions are now:

$ ls /dev/sound -l

drw-rw---- 1 root audio dsp
drw-rw---- 1 root audio mixer

And Gnome complains about it. Does Gnome need more privileges?