Sound permission problem

Lars Bjørndal lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no
Thu Nov 29 21:11:37 UTC 2007


Hello, list!
Does anyone know the solution to my problem?

Thank you!

lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no (Lars Bjørndal) writes:

> Hi!
>
> I'm running Fedora F7, without X. I'm able to do 'mplayer <url>' for
> one user at a time. However, I'm not able to do 'mplayer <url>' for
> one user, and then 'mplayer <another-url>' as another user. Then I get
> the following error message:
>
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:831:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to
> create IPC semaphore
> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Permission denied
>
> It's not important to me to play mplayer that way, however, I want to
> be able to run speech-dispathcer (which, BTW should have an rpm pacage
> for Fedora) and play mplayer at the same time. How could I solve this
> permission problem?
>
> I've tried to put in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms:
>
> <console>  0666 <sound>      0600 root,
>
> and ls -al /dev/audio gives:
>
> crw-rw-rw-+ 1 lrs root 14, 4 2007-11-29 10:00 /dev/audio
>
>
> Lars




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