[mythtv-users] ALSA proc files and permissions

[Tom Lichti]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Stadt <acstadt at stadt.ca> wrote:
> On 25/05/2011 9:49 AM, Wayne Thomas wrote:
>> Check that the user you are trying to run mythtv as is a member of the
>> audio group.  You can check using the command "grep audio /etc/group".
>>  If the user isn't listed, you've found your problem.  Add them to the
>> group using the usermod command (i.e. "usermod -a -G audio username",
>> replace username with the appropriate name).
>>
>> Ciao
>>
> FWIW, on my system everything under /proc/asound belongs to root:root,
> therefore  making sure the user running mythtv was in the audio group
> didn't help.  My personal solution was to add a command to a command the
> local start up scripts to (a) change the ownership of that particular
> file to root:audio, (b) chmod to 664 and (c) echo 192 into it.

Me too, on Fedora 13. Adding the user to audio did nothing until I did
the chown/chmod.

Tom