Re: Sound if root only

[Christoph Ulrich Scholler <scholler@fsmb.tu-darmstadt.de>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:21:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Running woody on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with kernel 2.4.14.  The system uses a 
> Maestro3 sound chip.  Compiling kernel 2.4.14, the Maestro3 driver shows up 
> marked as experimental under xconfig but it is grayed out and non-selectable. 
> So far as I could tell, it isn't dependent upon another option.  Under 
> menuconfig, the Maestro3 doesn't show up at all.  I manually edited .config 
> and enabled the Maestro3 driver.  The kernel compiled fine, and I have sound 
> under X if I'm logged in as root.  If I log in under my normal user account, 
> I have no sound.  My first thought is a permissions issue, but I'm not sure 
> which files might cause this.  Thanks in advance for any thoughts or 
> suggestions.
> 
the compile option for the maestro3 sound chip becomes selectable in
xconfig when you enable experimental drivers at the beginning of the
kernel setup.

regards,

uLI

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