On Feb 13, 2008 10:09 AM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 15:58, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 21:07 -0800, Frank Chiulli wrote: > > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:17 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I got no answer to my question about sound in f8 working only as root, > > > > so let me ask the question a different way. > > > > > > > > This could only happen if some vital component in processing sound has > > > > the wrong permissions. Could any one suggest what that component could > > > > be? This is very frustrating. > > > > -- > > > > ======================================================================= > > > > To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide > > > > a test load. > > > > ======================================================================= > > > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > -- > > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > Aaron, > > > I had the same problem. But I was also getting a startup message > > > about a syntax error in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms > > > on line 19 at 0600. The error was a right paren instead of a greater > > > than: <sound) <sound> > > > > > > Once I corrected that sound worked just fine. > > > > > > Frankt > > > > Your a genius. Or at least you had the critical piece of information. > > My /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms had no sound clauses > > at all. It had no cdrom clauses either. Once that correction was made > > sound works. I will have to remember to check that in the future. > > > > > > But how could that have happened. I assume it was related to the system > > not recognizing the sound card. > > Hi Aaron. I'm glad you have the problem resolved. I'd had a look in my > F8's /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms, after seeing Franks > post, and it's as below. > > # device classes -- these are shell-style globs > <pilot>=/dev/pilot > <scanner>=/dev/scanner* /dev/usb/scanner* > <rio500>=/dev/usb/rio500 > <fb>=/dev/fb /dev/fb[0-9]* \ > /dev/fb/* > <kbd>=/dev/kbd > <joystick>=/dev/js[0-9]* > <gpm>=/dev/gpmctl > <dri>=/dev/nvidia* /dev/3dfx* /dev/dri/card* > <mainboard>=/dev/apm_bios > <pmu>=/dev/pmu > <bluetooth>=/dev/rfcomm* > <irda>=/dev/ircomm* > <dvb>=/dev/dvb/adapter*/* > > # permission definitions > <console> 0600 <pilot> 0660 root.uucp > <console> 0660 <scanner> 0660 root.lp > <console> 0600 <fb> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <kbd> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <joystick> 0600 root > <console> 0700 <gpm> 0700 root > <console> 0600 <mainboard> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <rio500> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <pmu> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <bluetooth> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <irda> 0600 root > <console> 0600 <dvb> 0600 root > > <xconsole> 0600 /dev/console 0600 root.root > <console> 0600 <dri> 0600 root > > As you can see there are no sound, or cdrom clauses, and the fresh install of > F8 picked up the soundcard (audigy2 soundblaster) ok. Apart from disabling > the infamous pulseaudio, the only other thing necessary was to add alias, and > options lines for snd-usb-audio in /etc/modprobe.conf, so that my usb midi > keyboard didn't end up in the card0 position. > > It would be nice to know which soundcard Frank Chiulli has on his machine, > that gave a similar problem to you, and if the soundcard was picked up > automatically when he did the install, or whether he had to run > system-config-soundcard to configure the card, and only after doing that, > discovered the badline in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms. > > Aaron. Do you still have to add a "modprobe snd-cs4236" line in /etc/rc.local > in F8, as you had to do since FC6, as per your earlier post? > > I wonder if this is a kernel, or Alsa related problem, as you said it wasn't > limited to Fedora 6 onwards, but also on Ubuntu 6.06, 7.2, and 7.10, > therefore the problem with snd-cs4236 does not, on the face of it appear to > be distro specific. By the way, and IIRC, I thought I read somewhere that > support for isa soundcards was not as it used to be. > > Would you download this script, as below, run it, and post the link to > pastebin back. It may well provide some usefull info about your machine, > soundcard, etc. > > http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa/raw-file/tip/alsa-info.sh > > It may be usefull to the Alsa development folks, and I'll post the pastebin > link there, with all the relevant details regarding your isa soundcard, and > what is necessary to get it to work. > > Nice to have the sounds working again eh! > > All the best. > > Nigel. > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Nigel, I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value. This is an older machine. F8 detected the card automatically. Unfortunately I can't tell you exactly when I got the error. I had tried lots of things to get sound to work but never did. It wasn't a big deal. Then I was looking at something else when I was the error. I figured that I would take a look at it. It seems like an easy fix. It seems pretty obvious to me what was wrong. So I corrected it. Then sound worked. Frank
