Re: SB PCI 128 Sound onlys plays when root.
Everything seems ok. You probably need to add your user account to the
audio group. As root enter 'adduser <user login> audio'. The next time
you log into your user account it sound should work. Note in the
directory listing below that the files are read/write by the owner root
and by the group audio.
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Brian
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*- On 17 Feb, benjamin mcgough wrote about "SB PCI 128 Sound onlys plays when root."
> I think that this is a configuration problem involving file permissinos.
>
> See below for hardware/software list.
>
> I cannot seem to play sounds when logged in as a user, only when logged
> in as root. When I am root, they work just fine. I am using the
> Ensoniq 1370 driver from the 2.1.125 kernel, and I'm not using it as a
> module, nor do I have OSS drivers installed. I suspect that somewhere
> along the way some file permissions got screwed up. I looked in /dev
> and I found these:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 audio
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 20 Jul 20 1998 audio1
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 20 1998 dsp
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jul 20 1998 dsp1
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 Jul 20 1998 midi00
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 18 Jul 20 1998 midi01
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 34 Jul 20 1998 midi02
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 50 Jul 20 1998 midi03
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 20 1998 mixer
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 Jul 20 1998 mixer1
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 20 1998 sequencer
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Jul 20 1998 sequencer2
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 6 Jul 20 1998 sndstat
>
> Should I have multiple /dev/audios and /dev/dsps? Are they the
> correct permissions.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I'm so close to being able to use sound
> under linux!
>
> Please respond on this list if you think it will be useful to others,
> but e-mail me privately otherwise.
>
> Thank you,
> benjamin mcgough
> bmcgough@olywa.net
>
> My System:
> ASUS P2B / PII-233 / 128MB SDRAM
> Diamond Fireport 20 (NCR53c875) PCI SCSI controlling:
> Toshiba 2X SCSI
> Toshiba 40X SCSI
> Phillips 2X CD-RW SCSI
> 14.4 EIDE Hard Drive (that was fun to fdisk!)
> Diamond Viper 550 (Nvidia Riva TNT) AGP
> Hauppauge WinTV 401 (stereo w/radio)
> SoundBlaster PCI 128 (Ensoniq 1370)
>
> My Software:
> Debian 2.0 installed base system only.
> XFree86 3.3.3.1 installed manually.(for the Riva TNT)
> Debian 2.1 packages used to update everything.
> Kernel 2.1.125 (from slink package)
> Enlightenment 14
> Gnome .99 (whatever was in slink)
>
>
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