sound in Debian

[Blake Barnett]

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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