[mythtv-users] ALSA proc files and permissions

[Robin Gilks]

If I run as an ordinary user I get the error

2011-05-25 23:07:29.616 ALSA, Error: Setting hardware audio buffer size to
128
2011-05-25 23:07:29.616 ALSA, Error: Error opening
/proc/asound/card0/pcm1p/sub0/prealloc: Permission denied.
2011-05-25 23:07:29.616 ALSA, Error: Try to manually increase audio buffer
with: echo 128 | sudo tee /proc/asound/card0/pcm1p/sub0/prealloc
2011-05-25 23:07:29.616 ALSA, Error: Unable to sufficiently increase ALSA
hardware buffer size - underruns are likely

This has been documented before but if I try running the frontend SUID
root then the BBC weather scripts fail due to perl getting huffy running
as root.

Is there a solution to this?

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Robin Gilks