[olug] More on Sound card problem

[Tom Huber]

Jon thanks for reply.
# 1 sound volume is up and audio cd's play fine but thats all that play.
# 2 it does not matter if I am logged in as Tom or root the ONLY thing that plays is audio cd's

Speakers pop on boot up and shut down but that is all.

Jon wrote:

> OK some quick thoughts
> 1. it is common for mixers to default to no volume.  Make sure your volume is up.
> 2. Just realized if your getting a permissions issue maybe the device isn't set to correct parameters.  You can run as root as a work around but you will probalby want to open up permissions on dsp.  Maybe make a sound group or something.
>
> -Jon.  Hope this gives you some ideas.
>
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:53:32AM -0500, Tom Huber wrote:
> > I went to the HOWTO's on playing sounds and it talked about some
> > problems and things to check.  One was doing the following:
> > cat /dev/sndstat
> > to check if things loaded correct for card.  Well it has the card type
> > and timer and one other line but the drivers and config sections are
> > empty.  What do I have to do to load them now the HOWTO just sorta
> > stopped there.   Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Tom
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