Re: Opensuse 11.4 no sound and Amarok not playing tracks (Discussion closed)

At Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:05:45 -0600,
Donn Washburn wrote:
> 
> On 03/11/2011 03:03 PM, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
> > On Friday, March 11, 2011 02:36:54 PM jdd wrote:
> >> Le 11/03/2011 20:15, Ralph DeWitt a écrit :
> >>> HI all:
> >>> I have done a install of openSUSE 11.4 on a new machine. I have noticed
> >>> to problems. One sound does not seem to work and amarok dose not seem to
> >>> be playing tracks. Can someone help me trouble shoot and correct the
> >>> problem.
> >> hello,
> >> this list is for members creating multimedia content, not for general
> >> help. see opensuse list or any forum.
> >>
> >> That said, usually such problem come from some mixer entry muted
> >>
> >> jdd
> > jdd:
> > Thanks for your help. But the mixer is not muted. Now I suggest that you
> > change the list topic to limit the discussion to multimedia creation only in
> > http://lists.opensuse.org as it currently says:opensuse-multimedia     English
> > "Discussion about multimedia in the openSUSE distribution"  I feel my asking
> > for help with a broken Amarok (multimedia application) and a broken sound
> > system sub component is with in the current guide lines of this list. But in
> > order to avoide conflict I will take this problem to another list. And I wiil
> > remember the unfrendlyness of this distributions mailing lists when I begin
> > the process of looking for another distribution.
> Check their permission on /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer.  For some reason 
> openSuSE sets them up as 660.

Well, first off, most apps shouldn't use /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer.
These are OSS devices.  So, if any, check /dev/snd/* files.

Secondly, the device permissions are controlled in two ways: normal
Unix file permissions and ACL in addition.  In recent distros, the
permissions for desktop users are added/removed dynamically via ACL
using ConsoleKit.  Check the output of "getfacl /dev/snd/*"

As the last (but really unrecommended) resort, you can put your id
into audio group to allow the access permanently.  In this case, don't
forget to re-login.


Takashi