kde sound problem [solved]

[vincent delft]

I'm looking for idea to my sound problem.

- my user has "audio" in his group
- I can play mp3 with xmms

BUT kde wan't to play sound!!!!

message I receive when KDE start is: "device: /dev/sound/dsp can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)"
But, if you look I've got correct permissions:
"
linuxhome ~ # ls -al /dev/sound/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Feb 25 19:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 29920 Feb 25 19:21 ..
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 12 Feb 19 11:21 adsp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 19 11:21 audio
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 19 11:21 dsp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 0 Feb 19 11:21 mixer
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 1 Feb 19 11:21 sequencer
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 8 Feb 19 11:21 sequencer2
linuxhome ~ #
"

I'm using KDE-3.4.3.


Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks.

[stone[no]]

Hi, I had the same problem. It was due to a dependecy problem. kmultimedia (I believe t's called - I'm not sure since I'm not at my desktop) depends upon a package, that later was updated by portage.
I solved it be re-emerging kmultimedia.

I hope this helps
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- Stein
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[vincent delft]

Thanks for the idea stone[no], but that don't have any impact.

I've rebuild the following packages:

[vincent delft]

I've found the problem: /dev/snd/timer has a permission 0600.

By changing it it works.

chmod 660 /dev/snd/timer

Now the problem is to let udev put the correct permissions.
I've create an another topic for that problem:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-437924-highlight-.html

Thanks