Re: alsaplayer problems
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H. S. Teoh wrote:
> [Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to debian-user]
>
> I'm having problems using alsaplayer. For some reason, everything works
> perfectly as root, but when I try to run it under a non-root user, it
> fails with the following:
>
> Unavailable hw params:
> ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED
> FORMAT: S16_LE
> SUBFORMAT: STD
> SAMPLE_BITS: 16
> FRAME_BITS: 32
> CHANNELS: 2
> RATE: 44100
> PERIOD_TIME: (362 743039)
> PERIOD_SIZE: [16 32768]
> PERIOD_BYTES: [64 131072]
> PERIODS: (0 2048]
> BUFFER_TIME: (1451 743039)
> BUFFER_SIZE: [64 32768]
> BUFFER_BYTES: [256 131072]
> TICK_TIME: 10000
> failed to configure output device...trying OSS
> Unavailable hw params:
> ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED
> FORMAT: S16_LE
> SUBFORMAT: STD
> SAMPLE_BITS: 16
> FRAME_BITS: 32
> CHANNELS: 2
> RATE: 44100
> PERIOD_TIME: (362 743039)
> PERIOD_SIZE: [16 32768]
> PERIOD_BYTES: [64 131072]
> PERIODS: (0 2048]
> BUFFER_TIME: (1451 743039)
> BUFFER_SIZE: [64 32768]
> BUFFER_BYTES: [256 131072]
> TICK_TIME: 10000
> failed to configure output device...trying OSS
> error on set_period_size (0)
> error on set_period_size (0)
>
>
>
> The thing is, said user already belongs to group 'audio', and I've checked
> that /dev/snd/* and /dev/sound/* are all writable by audio. (I use DevFS.)
> Furthermore, alsamixer works under said user without any problems, and
> even aplay works. I don't understand why alsaplayer doesn't. I think I
> must be missing something obvious. Any ideas?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> T
>
Strangely enough, the only way I can make it work is --
alsaplayer -o oss
And yes I am using ALSA sound drivers.
Paul
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