Re: ./snddevices

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:20:37 +0900,
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 
> However I and others using the quattro have a bizarre problem where we 
> cannot access the alsa layer as a normal user.
> 
> This is the message I get before/after running ./snddevices manually:
> -----
> snd_pcm_open: Permission denied (quattro1)
> Failed to initialize plugin!
> Failed to register plugin: /usr/local/lib/alsaplayer/output/libalsa_out.so
> Failed to load output plugin "alsa". Trying defaults.
> snd_pcm_open: Permission denied (quattro1)
> Failed to initialize plugin!
> -----

please check the permission of device files under /dev/snd directory.
the snddevices script creates the devices with the owner root.audio
(if such a group exists - if not, root.root is used).
this might be different on your system.

i hope this problem won't happen in future once after the major
distributions create such device files as default, and takes the
permission controls via pam.


> Can someone let me know what is wrong or has support for the old dev 
> system been dropped now?

because it is an ugly style and devfs can do the same thing even
better...


Takashi


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