Xfce took away my sound

[Christian Johansen]

Well, I have not updated any packages for quite a while, and certainly
not since the last reboot. I installed xfce, and once I entered it
(did not reboot in the meantime) the sound was immediately crippled :(

But I guess I should try a reboot. Maybe things'll straighten up.
Sorry for not thinking about that before posting...

Christian


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:02:27 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >>grip
> >>
> >>
> >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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