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Aurin
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 Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 11:29 pm Post subject: Alsa awful with non-root user |
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I recently installed and configured Alsa with the via686 driver for an ac97 on-motherboard sound card. When I run xmms or another player as root, everything works beautifully. As any other user, the sound comes out horribly distorted with sharp spikes of static. My user account is a member of the audio group, of course.
Not sure if it will help, but lsmod looks like this:
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snd-pcm-oss 35652 0 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 9440 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
sr_mod 11576 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-via686 7364 0
snd-pcm 56416 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via686]
snd-timer 10912 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 24240 0 [snd-via686]
snd-mpu401-uart 3216 0 [snd-via686]
snd-rawmidi 13152 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3808 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 27464 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via686 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
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Most of it is deps for snd-via686, which is aliased as snd-card-0. Is there any way to get around the static? I'm about this close () to doing something really dumb like suiding xmms  |
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french tony
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 21 Aug 2002
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Location: Belfast
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What does your ~/.asoudrc looks like?
could it be that the levels are set too high? you can check with alsamixer.
having both pcm and master set to 100% is bad. |
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Aurin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2002 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, not both set to 100%. I tried various lower settings, and got... quieter screechy static 
In addition, though, my computer has been locking up (no keyboard, no mouse) on reaching the XDM login screen recently. Booting another OS and deleting asound.state fixes the problem. I don't seem to have a ~/.asoundrc, even after running amixer as user.
Oh, one more thing. When I'm booting up, after loading sound card 0, I get a buch of messages like "modprobe: snd-card-1 not found," and so on through snd-card-9 or 10. Of course, none of those are aliased to anything. Not sure why the alsa init script would be going through them.
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