Xfce took away my sound

[Christian Johansen]

Ok, a reboot settled it. Everything's ok now. Very wierd... Sorry for
CC'ing you Brian, forgive me, I'm a newbie her :) Thanks for your
quick reply!


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:33:35 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Christian Johansen wrote:
> 
> >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 :(
> >
> >
> Is it possible that something else on your system (or maybe an app)
> started something like esd or arts, which took over the sound device?
> I've noticed that happen on my laptop occasionally, which is annoying
> since its sound driver doesn't allow multiple-open.
> 
> But still, Xfce4 stays away from sound for the most part.  I'd be more
> than surprised if it had something to do with us.
> 
>     -Brian
> 
> P.S.  Please don't CC: me on list mail.  (If *you* don't want to be
> CC:ed, remove your address from the reply-to field.)
> 
> 
> >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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