trplayer and audio permissions

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Thu Oct 11 10:04:00 EDT 2001


Been there, done that! And I am happy to say, "It works!" Adam, that did
the trick. Trplayer and RealPlayer must need other devices in addition to
audio and dsp. Sorry to take so long on getting back to you all. Thanks
for the ideas and help.

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Adam Myrow wrote:

> I have no problems with my users added to the "sys" group.  Then again, I
> am using an AWE64, not a SB Live.  I would suggest trying putting a user in
> the "sys" group, and other than that, I don't know.  I have noticed that
> the sound support on some cards in Linux is dodgy.  For example, the Intel
> I810 chip that comes on a lot of newer computers as an on-board sound card
> is absolutely terrible!  I suppose that's why Alsa was invented.  It's a
> shame the kernel team couldn't get with the Alsa team and give the stock
> kernel some really good sound support.
>
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