Hi,
On my area when I use xmms and go to the preferences, I see I'm using ALSA. Click on configure, I can see 4 devices : default, two soundblasters (hw:0,0 and hw:0,3) as well as the internal Intel sound. I have the device set to default and the use software volume control box ticked. XMMS works fine on my area.
If I go to the wifes area, xmms only shows the default device. I've set it to use ALSA with the volume control box ticked. The only device available is the default one.
When I tried using kmix, it is showing up as there being no audio mixers at all.
What files do I need to alter on /dev so that any user has access to them?
Currently, /dev/mixer is set as crw------- 1 paul root 14, 0 /dev/mixer0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 ->mixer /dev/mixer1 crw 1 paul root 14,16
I imagine I need to set /dev/mixer & /dev/mixer1 to be chown root.root and chmod 777 on it.
TTFN
Paul
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:20 +0100, Paul wrote:
If I go to the wifes area, xmms only shows the default device. I've set it to use ALSA with the volume control box ticked. The only device available is the default one.
When I tried using kmix, it is showing up as there being no audio mixers at all.
What files do I need to alter on /dev so that any user has access to them?
Currently, /dev/mixer is set as crw------- 1 paul root 14, 0 /dev/mixer0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 ->mixer /dev/mixer1 crw 1 paul root 14,16
I imagine I need to set /dev/mixer & /dev/mixer1 to be chown root.root and chmod 777 on it.
It looks like you are on the right track. The permanent solution I use is to create a new group "sound", and add any users needing access to audio hardware to the new group. Then, in /etc/security/console.perms, edit sound class permissions as follows: <console> 0660 <sound> 0660 root.sound
This will allow all users in group "sound" to access all audio devices (as defined in the upper portion of /etc/security/console.perms) on each subsequent reboot.
Kevin Freeman