On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Martin Rowe wrote:
> 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.
I thought /dev/mixer was a link to /dev/mixer0 (usually). At least that
is how mine is setup.
nolandia:~> dir /dev/mix*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Aug 26 01:23 /dev/mixer ->
/dev/mixer0
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio 14, 0 Aug 26 01:23 /dev/mixer0
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio 14, 16 Aug 26 01:23 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio 14, 32 Aug 26 01:23 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio 14, 48 Aug 26 01:23 /dev/mixer3
I guess as long as it's major 14 and minor 0 I guess it's fine.
> 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).
Mine is not set to setuid.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29312 Jun 16 18:18 /usr/bin/gmix
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Anthony
