Re: [linux-audio-user] lost user access to alsa

From: plutek <plutek@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri May 05 2006 - 21:09:09 EEST

On Fri, 5 May 2006 14:00:03 -0400
plutek <plutek@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> greetings!
>
> i'm using a laptop with ubuntu dapper, 2.6.15 kernel (with ingo's patch), alsa 1.0.10, and jackd 0.100.0.
>
> this system was working flawlessly with with both the onboard soundcard and my RME Multiface, with realtime access as user, until a recent install of some dvd-playing apps. now, when i try to bring up jack *as user* i get:
>
> ---------------------------
> |~: /usr/bin/jackd -R -m -dalsa -r44100 -p128 -n2 -D -Chw:1,0 -Phw:1,0
> jackd 0.100.0
> Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
>
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> apparent rate = 44100
> creating alsa driver ... hw:1,0|hw:1,0|128|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> control device hw:1
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.subdevice'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or
> directory ALSA lib conf.c:3951:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:1,0
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.subdevice'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or
> directory ALSA lib conf.c:3951:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM hw:1,0
> ALSA: Cannot open PCM device alsa_pcm for playback. Falling back to capture-only mode
> cannot load driver module alsa
> Segmentation fault
> -------------------------------
>
> the same command line *as root* works fine.
> i don't know what has changed.... can someone help me sort this out?

more possible clues.... when i run hdspmixer, i get this:

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~: hdspmixer

HDSPMixer 1.6 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas@email-addr-hidden>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPMixer is free software, see the file COPYING for details

Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with unknown codec at 0xe0100c00, irq 10
Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 10
Multiface found !
1 Hammerfall DSP card found.
Initializing default presets
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.hwdep.device'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:242:(snd_func_getenv) error evaluating default
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_igetenv returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3951:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib hwdep.c:151:(snd_hwdep_open_noupdate) Unknown HwDep hw:1
Couldn't open hwdep device. Metering stopped
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.pltk.
Received on Sat May 6 04:15:03 2006

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