Alsa 0.5.10 w/ Debian - was: Re: not working yet

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi  all you Alsa gurus!

	Yippee!!!! I finally got Alsa-0.5.10 working!!!!

Thanks very very much to all the help you guys gave me while I was figuring this one out.

	It appears (as Geoff says below) that it doesn't matter if the sound support is compiled into the kernel, or as a module. Just don't compile anything else into the kernel.

	In my case, the key turned out to be the fact that the devices in /dev were owned by root and in the audio group. No normal user could use them. By adding myself to the audio group, it all works!

	Thanks again guys!

Geoff Shang wrote:

-=> Hi:
-=>
-=> I have sound support built in to the kernel, so this seems not to
-=> matter.  I would guess that if your kernel is compiling properly then the
-=> includes must be OK.
-=>
-=> As far as your user vs. root problem goes, remember the sound devices were
-=> recreated with sndevices, so it's quite possible that user and group
-=> details or permissions may have changed.  Make sure that your user account
-=> has access to the devices.  I'd suggest making them group read/writeable
-=> and put yourself in that group.
-=>
-=> As for unmuting, remember you need to both unmute and set volumes for both
-=> the master volume and one other source (e.g. pcm).  The need for this
-=> should be pretty obvious.
-=>
-=> Geoff.
-=>
-=>
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-=> Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au>
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		--terry

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