dissapearing sound

mogosjoh · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 4:13 pm Post subject: dissapearing sound

first off, here is my system setup:

AMD 1.333 GHZ
512 RAM
GeForce2 MX 400 64MB
Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1
etc

when I was initially emerging everything on my system while logged in as root, sound worked fine. Now, while logged in as a regular user, I can get no sound from any application. I have tried OSS and esound from XMMS to no avail and have tried the same in mplayer. Also, as a user, I get no sound from the UT 2003 demo or any other application for that matter. What gives?

thanks in advance for the help,

-John

mogosjoh · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 4:40 pm Post subject:

update:

when I su and run a sound producing program (xmms, UT2003, etc), the sound works fine. Seems to be a permissions issue? Also, aumix will not open as a user, but opens and works fine as root.

thanks again,

-John

pilla · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:18 pm Post subject:

Is your user in the audio group?
Search for it, there are many threads with this same problem and the solution (add users to the proper groups).

mogosjoh · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:26 pm Post subject:

ok, so I have figured out a temp fix to the problem (based on posts by others regarding similar problems). I can play sound if I type this:

<code> # chmod 770 /dev/sound </code>

but of course the change does not stick after reboot. What gives? When I used 1.2 I never had any problems like this.

-John