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dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Only root can play sounds

If I run

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

as root it works, but as a regular user I get this:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_referreturned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory

Did I miss something in configuring ALSA?

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: Only root can play sounds

Are you part of the audio group?

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dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Re: Only root can play sounds

Are you part of the audio group?

I did this:

 usermod -a -G audio daniel

But I'm still geting the same output from aplay.

Last edited by dbbolton (2009-02-02 01:50:01)

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: Only root can play sounds

edit:
never mind:D

Last edited by sand_man (2009-02-02 01:51:18)

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dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Re: Only root can play sounds

ahh no
try this
# gpasswd -a daniel audio

Still the same output from aplay.

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: Only root can play sounds

sorry my bad. But if you have just added yourself to a group you need to log out and back in for it to take effect

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dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Re: Only root can play sounds

sorry my bad. But if you have just added yourself to a group you need to log out and back in for it to take effect

It seems to be working now. Thanks

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