On 27 February 2006 22:13, Richard Fish wrote: > On 2/27/06, Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ > > total 0 > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 19 20:29 mixer > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jan 19 20:29 sequencer > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Jan 19 20:29 sequencer2 > > tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/audio > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 /dev/sound/audio > > These are the legacy OSS device nodes. Most likely KDE is using the > alsa device nodes at /dev/snd/. What are the permissions on those?
Just read through the thread again. It isn't clear what *kind* of sound the original poster Antoine meant. There is a big difference between playing sound files residing on your harddisk and playing CDs in your CD-ROM. For the latter, you don't really need access to those audio devices but to the CD-ROM because a CD player like kscd only sends commands to it and receives responses from it. The CD-ROM then sends the audio stream directly to your soundcard; it isn't really going through your CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 27 14:25 /dev/cdrom -> hdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -l /dev/hdd brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 64 Feb 27 14:25 /dev/hdd As you can see, the CD-ROm isn't in the audio but in the cdrom group. So if your problem is with CDs add your users to group cdrom. If that isn't your problem, play with the options under Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System -> Hardware -> Select the audio device. I used to have it set to Autodetect and no OSS support in the kernel. That worked. All of a sudden - probably after the update to KDE 3.5.1, but I am not completely sure here - that stopped working. Setting the "audio device" to ALSA explicitly didn't work either. Now I need the OSS emulation in my kernel and "audio device" set to OSS explicitly. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
