On Sunday 26 August 2001 17:13, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working > :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device > - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the > kernel. Well the latter is okay as it works fine for root. Permission > on /dev/mixer after the upgrade was > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer > and my userID is a member of the group audio. > Even changing permissions to > crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/mixer > doesn't improve things. > > Is gmix supposed to be setuid - I don't remember ever changing this. > Sound works okay for my user, just not the mixer properties (the > equaliser in xmms doesn't work either). > > Regards, Martin
Just to follow up with more info. gmix obviously can't be setuid - GTK doesn't like it & refuses to start the program. Both xmix & aumix work fine for a user, and gmix still won't run even if I chown /dev/mixer so I own it. I guess it must be a bug in gmix. Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
