sound in Debian

[jtannenba]

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 <blake.barnett@developonline.com>
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" <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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