Thanks, I will try this.

William Estrada MrUmunhum@popdial.com Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) Ymessenger: MrUmunhum

Takashi Iwai wrote:

At Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:55:27 -0700, william estrada wrote:

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Hi guys,

I have what seams like a interesting problem. I have written an ALSA app to record wav files and it runs while I am logged in an terminal as the logged in Gnome user or root. But when I su to another user, it can't find the default sound card.

I am running FC6. I tried changing own of /dev/dsp to 'nobody', that did not work.

Anyone know of this problem and a fix for it.

Thanks for your time.

-- William Estrada MrUmunhum@popdial.com Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( http://Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) Ymessenger: MrUmunhum

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MSGrec - Version 1.1, Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net WavMSG: Paused: enter 'q' to stop, <ENTER> to start. ALSA lib confmisc.c:848:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:397:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device ALSA lib confmisc.c:1248:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device ALSA lib conf.c:3972:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device ALSA lib pcm.c:2145:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

ALSA-native apps access only ALSA device files, usually /dev/snd/*, not /dev/dsp*, those for OSS. In this case, it should be /dev/snd/controlC* files. Check the premission of these files.

Takashi