Xfce took away my sound

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Uh, sorry dude, but none of this stuff looks like it has anything to do 
with Xfce.  Danny would be able to tell you for certain, but I doubt the 
xfce4-mixer(-plugin) touches permissions on your files.  Other than 
that, no other part of Xfce does anything with sound at all.  Xfce 
*certainly* has nothing to do with your CD-ROM drive.

Are you sure you didn't just happen to upgrade something else around the 
same time?  Or maybe even not recently, but you didn't reboot until 
recently?  I'd bet the culprit has something to do with system updates...

    -Brian

Christian Johansen wrote:

>A couple of days ago I installed xfce 4.0.5 Upon entering xfce for the
>first time, the sound all of the sudden dissapeared. I have been using
>ALSA for a long time, and it's been working perfectly. I tried to go
>back to fluxbox, but no sound.
>
>I found out that xcfe had done som crazy stuff with the permission for
>/dev/dsp and /dev/music/mixer (and maybe several more??). I fixed this
>by cmod'ing them both to 777 (which I guess is a NO-NO). Ok, I got
>xmms playing sound again with OSS, but not ALSA. What can I do to get
>ALSA back up working? And what are the right permissions for /dev/dsp
>and /dev/music/mixer?
>
>When trying ALSA I'm told to check that my soundcard is configured
>right, that I'm using the right plugin and to check that no other
>program is using the soundcard, which is the same error as I got with
>OSS before modifying the permissions. I don't know what happened or
>what to do from here, can anyone help me?
>
>Grip is also rendered useless at the time. It says
>
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>
>>grip
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>audio_alsa: no cards found!
>
>
>It also ouputs: "Unable to initialize /dev/cdrom !" ??? What has happened here?
>
>I have later changed to Xfce 4.2 but the problem is still there. Both
>ALSA and my cdrom are now not working.
>
>ls -l /dev/cdrom
>lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 13 Jan 21 21:45 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
>
>Looks right to me. I'm on a gentoo system with kdm login manager. I've
>moved from fluxbox to xfce.
>
>Can anyone help?
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