Kevin Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Lennart Poettering opined: > <snip> >> PA tries to open audio device via a lot of different device strings, >> but apparently it may not be opened via any of them. Could you check >> if you can open the device with aplay? (i.e. "aplay -f CD -D hw:0 < >> /dev/urandom" or something similar?) >> >> Maybe you have a permission problem? > > Permissions with what? Can't be /dev/dsp as I have tried running pulseaudio > after a "chmod 0666 /dev/dsp". Alsa doesn't use /dev/dsp. It uses nodes in /dev/snd/* Secondly, permissions on any modern system (which includes F9) for devices under a graphical session will be handled by ACLs automatically added/removed for the user with the "active session" by console-kit. So to check permissions you need to look at the mode (ls -l) but also the ACL (getfacl). I've not got much other info to your other questions but hopefully Lennart can be more informative :) Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
