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