Thanks, I will try this. William Estrada MrUmunhum@xxxxxxxxxxx Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) Ymessenger: MrUmunhum Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:55:27 -0700, > william estrada wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I have what seams like a interesting problem. I have written an ALSA app >> to record wav files and it runs while I am logged in an terminal as the >> logged in Gnome user or root. But when I su to another user, it can't >> find the default sound card. >> >> I am running FC6. I tried changing own of /dev/dsp to 'nobody', that did >> not work. >> >> Anyone know of this problem and a fix for it. >> >> Thanks for your time. >> >> -- >> William Estrada >> MrUmunhum@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) >> Ymessenger: MrUmunhum >> >>> MSGrec - Version 1.1, Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net >>> WavMSG: Paused: enter 'q' to stop, <ENTER> to start. >>> ALSA lib confmisc.c:848:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' >>> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device >>> ALSA lib confmisc.c:397:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings >>> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device >>> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1248:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name >>> ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device >>> ALSA lib conf.c:3972:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device >>> ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default > > ALSA-native apps access only ALSA device files, usually /dev/snd/*, > not /dev/dsp*, those for OSS. In this case, it should be > /dev/snd/controlC* files. Check the premission of these files. > > > Takashi > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel