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Can play audio CD's... but no WAV's or MIDI?!?

Can play audio CD's... but no WAV's or MIDI?!?

Post by Steve D. Perkin » Sat, 28 Aug 1999 04:00:00



        Earlier I made a post about not being able to use my sound card
when logged in as a normal user (DOES work as root, however)
after upgrading from RedHat 5.2 to 6.0.  After a little
tinkering... I found that changing the permissions for
"/dev/mixer" allows SOME things to work.  I am now able to play
audio CD's when logged in as a normal user... but I am still
unable to play WAV files or MIDI files (kmedia and kmidi report
"unable to open output device").

        Does anyone know which other listing under "/dev" need to have
their permissions modified for the rest of my sound card features
to kick in?  (I am, of course, *assuming* that this is the
problem)

Steve

 
 
 
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Can play audio CD's... but no WAV's or MIDI?!?

Post by cpwU.. » Sun, 29 Aug 1999 04:00:00




Quote:>    Earlier I made a post about not being able to use my sound card
>when logged in as a normal user (DOES work as root, however)
>after upgrading from RedHat 5.2 to 6.0.  After a little
>tinkering... I found that changing the permissions for
>"/dev/mixer" allows SOME things to work.  I am now able to play
>audio CD's when logged in as a normal user... but I am still
>unable to play WAV files or MIDI files (kmedia and kmidi report
>"unable to open output device").

>    Does anyone know which other listing under "/dev" need to have
>their permissions modified for the rest of my sound card features
>to kick in?  (I am, of course, *assuming* that this is the
>problem)

>Steve

Mmmm, how about /dev/audio and /dev/dsp.

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