Add the appropriate users to the 'audio' group. This should take care
of your permissions problems. Don't ask me how to get the events in
gnome to work as I have never been successful in doing this. Everything
else works fine for me.
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 06:35, jtannenba wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Actually, part of the problem was (blush)
> I was using the CD drive without the internal
> cable. I had to relink dev/cdrom to the correct
> drive for audio. Now only midi doesn't work
> and the sound events in Gnome doesn't work. The
> perms are also wrong somewhere. Only root can
> play CD's.
>
> Joe
>
> --- "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> > Am 16. Dec, 2001 schwätzte jtannenba so:
> >
> > > I have the sb module, AWE-WAVE module and opl3
> > modules
> >
> > I've got
> >
> > sb 7808 1
> > sb_lib 32288 0 [sb]
> > uart401 6048 0 [sb_lib]
> > sound 52428 1 [sb_lib uart401]
> > soundcore 3556 5 [sb_lib sound]
> > isa-pnp 27336 0 [sb]
> >
> > This is for an SB clone.
> >
> > > loaded. loading the above also loaded the
> > > soundcore(?) and Oss sound drivers(?). I can cat
> > a
> > > .wav file
> > > and get it to play (cat *.wav>/dev/audio) but, the
> >
> >
> > Weird that .wav works, but other stuff doesn't. I
> > presume it's not
> > permissions errors because .wav is working and
> > you're not getting errors.
> > Then again, mp3 and ogg require /dev/dsp, I think.
> > Do you have one? Do you
> > have perms to write to it?
> >
> > Are you getting any related errors in your log
> > files?
> >
> > > cd player and mixer in Gnome won't make a noise.
> > > Gnome is using esd which I believe is esound. Any
> > > other
> > > necessities needed?
> >
> > gnome using esd doesn't mean the cd player is, but
> > it should give you an
> > error if that's the problem. Try some command line
> > apps like ogg123 or
> > mpg123. xmms and grip also give decent error
> > messages ( except when xmms
> > has http probs ).
> >
> > > The way debian gens a modules.conf, I'm not sure
> > it is
> > > 100% correct for the options, etc.
> >
> > I put sb in /etc/modules to make sure it comes up
> > when booting. That doesn't
> > sound like your prob as the module is loaded.
> >
> > /etc/modutils/aliases is used to setup
> > /etc/modules.conf.
> >
> > > I am guessing it is ok since on boot up it says
> > > "Soundblaster found ok" and "AWE found ok" and
> > "opl13
> > > found ok" and cat /dev/sndstat shows the devices.
> >
> > Sounds good. Do you have a "silent film" driver
> > installed as well? ;-)
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
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