From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SA8QO-0000fg-Kr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:25:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02751E0772; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A0DE06FE for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6201B4008 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:23:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.202 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.202 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.192, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fDYJprfNAF0M for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15F3C1B4030 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SA8Ob-0001iB-2G for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:23:17 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-178-185.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.178.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:23:17 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-178-185.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:23:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mdev: sound is only working some of the time. Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:23:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20120320223107.GA2961@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-178-185.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <20120320223107.GA2961@acm.acm> X-Archives-Salt: 03e07694-8b06-47d2-bfaf-219d880c384d X-Archives-Hash: ef360849bb699a9be3639152c4178286 On 03/20/2012 03:31 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, all. > > Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs > (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, > when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as > www.tagesschau.de (no idea what audio format) it works. > > Clearly this is something to do with mdev. I had a look at the devices > in /dev, searching for those in group audio. Under udev, I find the > following as device nodes: > > adsp audio dsp mixer mixer1 sequencer sequencer2. > > Under mdev, all of these bar one are symlinks into the real nodes in a > subdirectory. The odd man out is mixer1 which is a device node, but > with owner/group begin root/root (rather than root/audio). > > Can anybody suggest any fix, or further areas of exploration? Thanks! Can you do chown root:audio on the mixer as a test?