From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: ./snddevices Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:42:27 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <3EEFF6A5.6060102@boosthardware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id OAA09020 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:42:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3EEFF6A5.6060102@boosthardware.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Patrick Shirkey Cc: ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php