[OpenIndiana-discuss] No sound output - no rights ?

[Stephan Althaus]

On 8/24/23 23:28, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 9:21 PM Stephan Althaus <
> Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have no audio output - anyone else, too ?
>>
> Are you logged in on the graphical console?
>
> The way this normally works is that the login display manager will change
> ownership of the audio devices to whoever is logged in on the console,
> using logindevperm(5) via di_devperm_login() and di_devperm_logout() -
> there's a patch 11-login-device-permissions.patch for lightdm that
> actually does this for you.
>
>
>> $ prtconf -d | grep -i audio
>>               pci1028,17b1 (pciex10de,fbc) [NVIDIA Corporation GM107 High
>> Definition Audio Controller [GeForce 940MX]], instance #6
>>           pci1028,7b1 (pciex8086,a171) [Intel Corporation CM238 HD Audio
>> Controller], instance #5
>>
>> $ sudo audioctl list-devices
>> Password:
>> audiohd#5
>> audiohd#6
>>
>> $ audiotest
>> Sound subsystem and version: SunOS Audio 4.0 (0x00040003)
>> Platform: SunOS 5.11 illumos-a98a962ff1 i86pc
>> /dev/sound/audiohd:5dsp: Permission denied
>> /dev/sound/audiohd:6dsp: Permission denied
>>
>> *** Errors were detected ***
>>
>> $ ls -l /dev/sound/audiohd:5dsp
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          49 Apr 11  2019
>> /dev/sound/audiohd:5dsp -> ../../devices/pci at 0,0/pci1028,7b1 at 1f
>> ,3:sound,dsp5
>>
>> $ ls -l /devices/pci at 0,0/pci1028,7b1 at 1f,3:sound,dsp5
>> crw-------   1 root     root      30, 81 Apr 11  2019
>> /devices/pci at 0,0/pci1028,7b1 at 1f,3:sound,dsp5
>>
>>
>> There's no group having rights to access the device, nor "others" - is
>> this normal ?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Hello!

Thanks to Udo and Peter for the insights!

This morning (after reboot) the sound is back.

I switched the Monitor device forth and back yesterday evening,
this might be the cause of the device-files belonging to root:root.
I will try that later.

Thanks!


Regards,

Stephan