On Friday 16 December 2005 8:36 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
I don't believe kde is doing anything, and the problem is not the sound module, but device permissions. HTH
Hey Joe! Again, many thanks! That was it! I did a couple of tests...and yes...it never worked while nobody was logged in. I knew it didn't work because I ran sox thru crontab (while no one was logged in) I then added my regular user to the audio group and now it works! Even if no one's logged in..it works! I never thought about being on the audio group ...because I had no problems with sound while using KDE...but now I know, thanks to you, that I was having access to the sound device by means of the "Resource Manager" daemon..and not necessarily because I had proper permissions on it. Now my user belongs to the audio group and can access the audio device even if the user isn't logged on. I can now happily run sox thru crontab and it will work. Many thanks! Jorge