[ATrpms-users] Sound problem under root

[Tim Wunder]

On Friday 09 December 2005 5:05 am, someone claiming to be André Fettouhi 
wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:03:54AM +0100, André Fettouhi wrote:
> >> I've upgraded my KDE on my FC4 box from 3.4.3 to 3.5.0 from kde-redhat
> >> and also upgraded to latest version of alsa from atrpms. Since
> >> then everytime I login as root I get a popup from the soundserver saying
> >>
> >> Sound server informational message:
> >> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> >> device: default can't be opened for playback (Invalid argument)
> >> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
> >>
> >> this happens only when I log in as root not as user. I read somewhere
> >> that dmix is broken.
> >
> > Try downgrading alsa and/or kde to identify the root of the
> > problem. Did you upgrade both alsa-lib and alsa-kmdl?
> >
> > I never login as root (graphically), so I haven't seen this
> > behaviour. I'd advise strongly against doing so in general. Still, if
> > this is  abug, it should be fixed nonetheless.
>
> Yes I upgraded both alsa-lib and alsa-kmdl. I don't think it 's KDE
> because if I choose OSS in the soundserver and restart it the error
> doesn't come up but if I choose ALSA or autodetect, then I get the error.
>
>

I have this same problem as a normal user. I don't have alsa-kmdl installed, 
nor is one available to me (I am not currently using atrpms repo's). The 
problem came as a result of an update. 

$ rpm -qa|grep alsa
alsa-lib-1.0.10-2.FC4
alsa-utils-1.0.10-1.FC4
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.10-2.FC4

OSS works, ALSA doesn't.
It might be:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175255

Tim

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