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Sound problems in KDE
I just upgraded to KDE 3.2.2
Now am having sound issues. When I try to start kmix I get:
$ kmix
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
kmix: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found.
Please check that the soundcard is installed and the
soundcard driver is loaded.
kmix:
When I log in to KDE I get the message:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Permission denied)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
This wasn't happening in my old RedHat 9 system (I'm now running slackware 9.1), and I haven't changed my hardware. How can I fix this?
"move it to the left" --me
i juist logged into my root account, and sound works fine. so it's not a system wide problem, just something messed up in my regular user's account. any ideas what it could be?
"move it to the left" --me
It might be a permissions or groups issue. open up /etc/devfsd.conf and verify the following:
[code:1]LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD
LOOKUP midi MODLOAD
REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
[/code:1]
make sure chmod is 660 and add all users who will need to access your soundcard to the audio group.
-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0
"move it to the left" --me
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