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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 5:15 am    Post subject: problems with alsa/sblive value/kde3 Reply with quote

Hey all,

Here's a weird one...I've got the alsa driver compiled and working just fine. I tried playing a test .wav file with asound from the command line, and that worked just fine. But for some reason, I can't play any sounds in KDE3. Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe you have to put the volume up in KDE? Serious, fire up KMix and see if you master volume is on and up. Mine wasn't at first. Don't forget to save your settings as default afterwards.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kmix didn't even contain any volume settings. When I open kmix, i just get a blank box.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried this from the installation guide?:

Note: If kmix cannot find a mixer, then it probably thinks you don't have sound support. Log out and remove ~/.kde/share/config/kmixrc and ~/.kde/share/config/kmix:* then log in again. This time it should find the sound mixer properly.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes i did...still no luck.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok this is weird...when i log into kde as root, i can play sounds just fine. However, when I use a non-root user, it won't play sounds at all. Any idea how to fix that?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aha, you have got to make the users part of the group 'sound'. It is in the installation guide, but it's a bit hidden.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alright i fixed it...

had to change the perms on /dev/dsp*.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually it's group 'audio':

Note: Notice that devfsd.conf sets /dev/sound permissions to be root.audio. Thus, for non-root users to use audio they will have to be part of the audio group.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah i saw that too. I just changed the perms to world read/write.
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