ALSA warnings

patrick gibblertron at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 21:06:53 UTC 2005


Found the answer here <http://alsa.opensrc.org/TroubleShooting>:

chmod -R a+rwX /dev/snd/.

On 10/11/05, patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using mpg321 to play MP3 files, and I get a bunch of output if I
> run it as a non-privileged user:
>
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:560:(snd_determine_driver) could not open control for card 0
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:955:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib conf.c:3948:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Permission denied
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2090:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA snd_pcm_open error: Permission denied
>
> On which files/devices do I need to fix the permissions so that these
> warnings don't occur?
>
> I would also like to be able to run alsamixer as a non-privileged user.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>




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