Sound Devices on Arch?

[Steve Holmes]

Hi Chuck, Thanks for the idea but better yet, I found the fix which might
be even better.  I forgot to do this first.  I connected my normal user, 
'steve' to the audio group.  Once I did that, not even aplay but espeak 
worked better without the modification of individual permissions. 

Thanks again though; I had discovered during all this that I could do these commands
in root without any problems.  Glad it was this easy.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:42:56PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I just installed Arch Linux on my new laptop but I have run into something
> > I can't seem to figure out.  It seems that speech is working fine but I can't
> > play any sound files.  Alsa complains that it can't find a device.
> > Yet, my machine talks fine with Speakup, espeak and the espeakup connector.
> 
> I solved a similar problem here by changing permissions on aplay, like
> this:
> 
> # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/aplay
> 
> I had to do the same thing with the beep command. If it's not too
> serious a security risk, you might want to try it. It's an easy enough
> change to undo if you need to.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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