<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">How about 'strace -eopen alsamixer'. Is there anything alsamixer is<br>
unable to load? Try as root too, you may be missing a user group. There<br>
looks to be a bundle of information on the Ubuntu forums about this as<br>
well so that may be a good read too.<br>
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Otherwise, make sure your system is up to date and running the latest<br>
kernel (not sure what the Hardy roadmap looks like so I am unsure as to<br>
what the lastest is, just run apt-get install dist-upgrade)<br></blockquote><div><br>yes i'm dist-upgrade already. as root, works, bingo! also works as the user created by the ubuntu installer. but as any other user, not. if i deprive that orig user of it's orig home directory content, then that user also fails to access sound. but if i use the content of that orig home directory for another user (chown -R user.user), no help. mimicing all the orig user entries in /etc/group and /etc/gshadow also no help. failure looks like<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">$ audacious /g/radio.pls<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">MADPlug-Message: failed to open audio output: XMMS reverse compatibility output plugin</span></font></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<font size="2"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">$ strace -eopen alsamixer</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/usr/lib/libasound.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory</span></font><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<font size="1"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Process 18713 detached</span></font><br></div>i suppose i'm about ready to punt and just chown all my stuff over to that orig installer user, but anybody got any suggestion how perhaps to get sound working for any other user?<br>
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