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Author: Blake Barnett
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Subject: sound in Debian
You can always change the perms on the devices if it really bugs you.


On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 06:49, jtannenba wrote:
> ok, put everyone in audio group..still, users could
> not
> use cdrom..Had to put everyone in the disk group
> also??
> This doesn't seem right. What did I miss?
>
> Joe
> --- Blake Barnett <>
> wrote:
> > 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" <> 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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