I have been using Linux successfully with sound for some time now. However
I have recently tried a couple of things and now sound has gone haywire. I
have done the following...
1) Setup a specific user account for playing Civilisation-CTP. Don't ask
me why, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
2) I have tried installing and using SLab 3.01 hard disk recording system.
I've played around with it a bit, but as yet have not actually recorded
anything.
I first noticed problems when I tried playing Civ - CTP under another user
account. There was no sound. On further investigation I found that access
to kmix was refused, as was access to the device for playing wav files and
midi files (these previously did work). Having a look at the permissions on
/dev/audio and /dev/mixer I found that they had r/w permission for my
Civilisation user account only (I don't recall changing any permissions). I
have changed this so that all users have r/w access (chmod 666) however I'm
still left with the following problem.
My Civisation user account works fine.
All other user accounts can play cd's without a problem but cannot play wav
or midi files (Civ-CTP has no sound). Cannot open output device error
messages appear.
Root works fine.
What devices and permissions must I configure so that all users can operate
sound. I am using a single AWE64 card. Will re-running sndconfig help at
all (I haven't tried this yet).
One last question - does anyone out there use SLab, and can you give me any
assistance in setting up the programme?
Aaron
