some USB audio help please?

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:42:35 +1000
begin  Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> spewed forth:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:20, David A. Bandel wrote:
> 
> > Remember, I'm using devfs, so the initial permissions are what the
> > kernel gives. That said, at boot, I deliberately chmod 666
> > /dev/sound/*. However, it appears that afterward, permissions change
> > (I'm not sure why-- and I use Blackbox).
> >
> > All this is on a COL-3.1.1 setup (obviously highly modified).  But my
> > LFS systems look identical to this.
> 
> I saw this and have been faoolowing the thread myself as i have sound 
> problems.
> 
> Mandrake 8.1/82 kde2.2.2/3.0 and no sound at all except on the bttv card
> for TV. I also had previously chmod 666 the /dev/sound and not looked

This problem (of bttv having sound but nothing else) is because you're
loading the bttv stuff first.  Rip it out, load the sound first, get it
working, then load bttv and all will be well.  I got bit once by this
nasty bug (when I upgraded to 3.1.1).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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