Bug#232237: Sound fixed
I also had a problem with sound that I have now resolved. The sound
applet in the default Gnome desktop would give me an error about
/dev/mixer. I ran ls -l on the device:
peach:~$ ll /dev/mi*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 0 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi00
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 18 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi01
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 34 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi02
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 50 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi03
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 1 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 2 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 3 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/midi3
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 32 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 48 Jan 1 11:31 /dev/mixer3
peach:~$
And saw that the device is not accessible to everyone. My solution was
to make all users members
of the group 'audio'. Perhap I should have changed permissions on the
device?
Regards
Oscar
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