I answered part of this already (yes i read email backwards), but i'll
fill in some more here.
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, WH Bouterse wrote:
Well one of the things in 6.1 that didn't give me trouble was sound.
My AWE 32 was recognized and has worked for many apps with no prob,
until now.
I had previously done a chmod a+rw /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp* etc
to get all users working as well as root.
mp3s, SoundStudio, realplayerG2, Speakfreely, everything was working
fine,until now
I can't be sure what I did (or was it me?) Anyhow upon attempting to run
a sound realated program I got all kinds of error messages as user so
switched to root.
Same thing: an 'ls -l /dev/audio' gives me:
'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/audio'
'ls -l /dev/dsp' gives me:
'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp'
The only thing unusual here is the permissions (you reapplied the chmod
a+rw, i assume)
Obviously something is wrong here !? bill is a user shouldn't that be
root instead?
No it is correct, PAM will set the owning user of the sound devices to the
first person that logs in at the console, and reset it to root when they
logout.
I don't know how to set things right again.
I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me
with this it would be appreciated.
#this resets the owner:group and permissions
chmod u+rw g+rw o-rw /dev/{audio,dsp,mixer}*
chown root:audio /dev/{audio,dsp,mixer}*
Now add your self or users to the audio group, and you should have no
problems
If it is something else then I would like to know that as well.
Once again, this was a perfectly functioning L-M 6.1 Sound system which
suddenly
is now dead.
(/sbin/lsmod |grep -q sound) || mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:) make sure the modules load, if they aren't maybe run the setup again
(pci sux)
William Bouterse
Juneau, Alaska
