Re: gmix problems
On Sunday 26 August 2001 17:13, Martin Rowe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working
> :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device
> - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the
> kernel. Well the latter is okay as it works fine for root. Permission
> on /dev/mixer after the upgrade was
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer
> and my userID is a member of the group audio.
> Even changing permissions to
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer
> doesn't improve things.
>
> Is gmix supposed to be setuid - I don't remember ever changing this.
> Sound works okay for my user, just not the mixer properties (the
> equaliser in xmms doesn't work either).
>
> Regards, Martin
Just to follow up with more info. gmix obviously can't be setuid - GTK
doesn't like it & refuses to start the program. Both xmix & aumix work
fine for a user, and gmix still won't run even if I chown /dev/mixer so I
own it. I guess it must be a bug in gmix.
Regards, Martin
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