Alsa sound errors
There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- myself, my wife
and my daughter. My daughter plays Flash games with sound all the time
and has no problems. I run YouTube videos and otherwise use sound with
no problems. My wife gets no sound whatsoever. We used to have a
problem with the sound being grabbed by something and then I would need
to kill things manually, but I eliminated all KDE apps and that problem
went away. I think that was back when I was still running Etch,
anyway. When I need to verify that sound is working and not locked up,
I just use 'play' with a .wav file. My wife was just playing a video
and getting no sound, so, under my login I ran:
play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav
/home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav:
File Size: 14.8k Bit Rate: 13.1k
Encoding: GSM
Channels: 1 @ 16-bit
Samplerate: 8000Hz
Replaygain: off
Duration: 00:00:09.04
In:100% 00:00:09.04 [00:00:00.00] Out:434k [ | ] Clip:0
Done.
and, as you can see, it worked just fine.
So I swiched over to my wife's login and did the same thing:
play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:985:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore
play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error:
Permission denied
As you can see, it failed. Can anyone tell me just what is failing and
how to correct it. My first thought was that it was a permissions
problem and perhaps she needed to be added to the 'audio' group, or some
such, as she is only in her own group. But then I checked my daughter's
account. She is also only in her own group; not in 'audio' or anything
else. So that ruled out that solution. The error says 'Permission
denied" however, so it is some kind of permissions problem, I just don't
know what.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Marc
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