On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
It works! Apparently, the output of the card is so low that it is audible only when the speakers are at full blast ... what tool is available in Debian to control the volume? There is no mixer support, so I cannot use aumix or the likes ...
I have the same card and aumix works fine with me. So, mixer support is available. What error message does aumix give ?
Rajen.
--- Rajen Parekh rajen@softhome.net wrote:
I have the same card and aumix works fine with me. So, mixer support is available. What error message does aumix give ?
I was able to use aumix with my root login. But as a normal user, aumix says "error opening mixer"
SameerDS.
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
I was able to use aumix with my root login. But as a normal user, aumix says "error opening mixer"
SameerDS.
According to my experience the first user to login on the system gets control of audio device. At least this is the case with Red Hat system, I don't know about other distributions. I have two user names "rajen" and "raj" on my system. After the system boots up, if I login as "rajen" first then "rajen" has the control on audio device and "raj" cannot open aumix. So, "raj" gets the message "error opening mixer". Of course, root can do anything.
HTH, Rajen.
Sometime on Aug 9, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe assembled some asciibets to say:
I was able to use aumix with my root login. But as a normal user, aumix says "error opening mixer"
Two or three options:
1. chown /dev/mixer to you 2. chmod a+rw /dev/mixer (ok if only your family uses the pc) 3. fool around with /etc/security/console.perms to change ownership of /dev/mixer to the person logged in to the console.
3 is the best as long as only one person logs into the console at a time. Too often I log in as different users on different ttys.
Philip
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