On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's > installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS > system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then > everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, > and vorbis-tools. The machine is only supposed to do one thing (and to > do it well, UNIX philosophy :oD): fetch an audio stream (produced by > MPD/Icecast upstairs on a big PC) and then output it from the soundcard > to the AUX IN from the stereo. > > I have a partial - and near-total - success, in that everything runs > fine... as root user. Whenever I try to run alsamixer as a normal user > on that box, I get the following error message: > > [kikinovak at jukebox ~]$ alsamixer > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or > directory > > Something similar happens with ogg123, which runs fine as root, but > produces the following error message as plain user: > > [kikinovak at jukebox ~]$ ogg123 http://babasse:8000/jukebox.ogg > ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0' > ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function > snd_func_card_driver returned error: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings > ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat > returned error: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name > ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer > returned error: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type > ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Aucun fichier > ou répertoire de ce type > ALSA lib pcm.c:2184:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default > === Impossible de charger le pilote par défaut, et aucun autre pilote > n'est indiqué dans le fichier de configuration. Terminaison. > > > Now I guess there must be something missing, because on my other > machines (with a full-blown desktop installed), alsamixer runs fine as > normal user. > > Any idea what could be wrong here? > > Cheers from the hot south of France, > > Niki > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ls -al /dev/{dsp,audio} ?