Sound issues

beniro · 2003-01-28 21:01:27

Hello. I'm running Arch .4 on a PIII 833 with 192 megs of RAM. My sound card is a SB Live.

PROBLEM: I can't get sound to work for regular users.

I put "alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1" in modules.conf.

I put "modprobe emu10k1" in rc.local.

If I log in as root, all is well, but if, for instance, I try to play a video in mplayer as a normal user, I'm notified of a permissions error on /dev/rtc and /dev/sound/dsp.

I tried (as root):

chmod 660 /dev/sound/dsp
chmod 660 /dev/rtc

Still no luck.

What newbie mistake am I making?

(Sorry for any mistakes in my post, I'm doing this from memory, but I tried to get all the paths and stuff correct.)

Thanks in advance for any bit o' help.

And thanks to ody for the new forum. I hope to put it to EXTENSIVE use. LOL

jlvsimoes · 2003-01-28 21:25:10

real time clock does not relate to soud i think
try add rc.local
chmod 666 /dev/sound/dsp
chmod 666 /dev/sound/mixer
a lsmod and see if emu10k1 is there if not insmod emu10k1
it worked for me but i have seen something in the forun like
the ( correct way to resolve that something related to the dev fs
and if im not correct im sorry for my reply

jlvsimoes · 2003-01-28 21:29:16

here it is
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=343

beniro · 2003-01-28 23:37:53

Thanks alot. I'm not on that computer right now (I'm running winXP at work) but this sounds like good info.

I'll let you know if this solved my problem. Thanks again!

beniro · 2003-01-30 21:31:05

I did the changes in the post you linked. It worked perfectly. Thanks for doing the legwork for me.

Thanks alot, jlvsimoes!!!

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Sound issues

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Re: Sound issues

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Re: Sound issues

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Re: Sound issues

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