Re: only Root can play sound in GNOME

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>:
>  On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 02:00 +0100, Joris Hooijberg wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed Debian sarge with X and the following problem occurs:

Me too.

> > When I log in in Gnome as a regular user my speakers are making noise
> > like a factorymachine (alternating silence and 'tshhh') and I can't
> > play audiofiles.

Mine sounds like fast repeating high freq. static.  Lasts a few
seconds so far (existing /usr/share/... audiofiles I've found).

> > While logged in as Root, or logged in in KDE as regular user there's

I haven't tried root.  I don't intend for it to work for root.

>  what is the output of lsmod?

(0) infidel /home/keeling_ lsmod | egrep 'sound|mae|mixer|oss|snd'
snd_maestro3           25512  0 
snd_ac97_codec         69988  1 snd_maestro3
maestro3               37128  1 
ac97_codec             18956  1 maestro3
snd_pcm_oss            55080  0 
snd_pcm                98728  2 snd_maestro3,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc         11752  1 snd_pcm
snd_timer              25732  1 snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    57156  6 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore              10336  3 maestro3,snd

>  what is the output of lspci -vv?

0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Acce
lerator (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 00b0
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR
- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort-
 >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32 (500ns min, 6000ns max)
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at f3ffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

>  are you using udev?

Yes.

>  what is the output of dmesg after boot?

maestro3: version 1.23 built at 17:58:25 May 19 2005
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
maestro3: Configuring ESS Maestro3(i) found at IO 0xD800 IRQ 5
maestro3:  subvendor id: 0x00b01028

>  maybe turn on bootlogging. look at /etc/default/bootlogd.

Thanks for that!  Don't know how I missed it.

>  ogg123 or play as a normal user.

I've been using play/esdplay.  The latter produces static, the former
nothing. 


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