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wolf

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-29

Posts: 9

Alsa Sound Help Please [ solved ]

Hello,
I am running arch v7.1 on a Abit av8 m'board with Amd 3200 and a Creative audigy sound card.
I have followed the arch/alsa wiki and several postings here plus searched everywhere but I can't get sound as a user, everything works fine as root.

This is what I get -
[wolf@myden ~]$ mc

[wolf@myden ~]$ cdcd
Welcome to cdcd 0.6.6.
You will now be asked a series of questions which will configure cdcd for your platform.  The default answers are given
between brackets.
What is the name of your CD-ROM device? [/dev/cdrom]
Are you connected to a network (y/n) [y]?

There are two methods of retrieving CD track information, CDDB and CD Index.  Using the CD Index will be somewhat
faster, but does not yet facilitate inexact matching.  Both methods may be used through HTTP proxy servers.

1) CDDB
2) CD Index

Choose a method [1]:
Use a HTTP proxy server (y/n)? [n]

cdcd: cannot initialize /dev/cdrom: Permission denied

[wolf@myden ~]$ aplay test.wav
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:544: audio open error: No such device
[wolf@myden ~]$

Please help

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: Alsa Sound Help Please [ solved ]

what do you get from lsmod?

whats in /etc/rc.conf
/etc/modprobe.conf

can you run  alsamixer  ? is everything unmuted?

did you join proper groups?
as root gpasswd -a USERNAME audio
optical
video
storage

wolf

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2006-01-29

Posts: 9

Re: Alsa Sound Help Please [ solved ]

Thankyou, I did not add myself to optical, storage, and video, only audio. Now I have and all works , Thanks again.