I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player. Thanks!! Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player. Do you have a /dev/dsp? I wonder if the audio problem is that the audio devices are not being created by udev. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 00:35, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player.
Do you have a /dev/dsp? I wonder if the audio problem is that the audio devices are not being created by udev.
Then how would the system sounds be played? It could be a permissions thing. The KDE stuff doesn't use UNIX style permissions, it uses the resource manager resmgr. alsaplayer I'll bet doesn't know what resmgr is so it tries to go for the device directly, and if you don't have permissions to the device, you lose
On Monday 25 April 2005 6:35 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player.
Do you have a /dev/dsp? I wonder if the audio problem is that the audio devices are not being created by udev.
Yes.....it's there. System oggs and wavs play fine.......nothing else. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Monday 25 April 2005 7:18 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 00:35, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player.
Do you have a /dev/dsp? I wonder if the audio problem is that the audio devices are not being created by udev.
Then how would the system sounds be played?
It could be a permissions thing. The KDE stuff doesn't use UNIX style permissions, it uses the resource manager resmgr. alsaplayer I'll bet doesn't know what resmgr is so it tries to go for the device directly, and if you don't have permissions to the device, you lose
I added myself to the "audio" user group......didn't work. Suggestion? Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 01:49, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Monday 25 April 2005 7:18 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 00:35, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I'm at a standstill on this problem. Maybe someone here has an idea what the error, "Direct access to sound device not possible" indicates and how to fix the problem. The card is an SB Audigy2 ZS, which worked very well for 9.2 "right outta the box." NOT so with 9.3.....clean install. I DO get system sounds, but the above error is from the Alsa audio player.
Do you have a /dev/dsp? I wonder if the audio problem is that the audio devices are not being created by udev.
Then how would the system sounds be played?
It could be a permissions thing. The KDE stuff doesn't use UNIX style permissions, it uses the resource manager resmgr. alsaplayer I'll bet doesn't know what resmgr is so it tries to go for the device directly, and if you don't have permissions to the device, you lose
I added myself to the "audio" user group......didn't work. Suggestion?
OK, first of all the error message seems to come from suse's CheckHardware script. At least that's where I find it. So you are running this from a KDE menu item, right? The full error text unless I'm much mistaken is "Direct access to sound device not possible No soundcard available or sound support not configured yet. However, the application uses or requires sound support." and what it does it quite simply to check if it can open the device /dev/dsp, however it doesn't use resmgr to do it (!!!) On my system, the audio group has no permissions to /dev/dsp* or /dev/snd/*, which permissions do you have on those files? Try forcing the permissions and see what happens
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