Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...> skribis:
> The problem could also be one of permissions, if your user isn't in
> the audio group, or the devices have non-standard permissions or
> ownership.

That reminds me of something.

A long time ago, I put the following in a
file/etc/udev/rules.d/30-local.rules after a udev upgrade broke my
sound:

# alsa devices
KERNEL="controlC0",                     NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="pcmC0D0c",                      NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="pcmC0D0p",                      NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="pcmC0D1c",                      NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="pcmC0D1p",                      NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="seq",                           NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
KERNEL="timer",                         NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"

The person having trouble could try that. Another thing to try is
'killall artsd' and then see what happens.

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