Problems with Creative Audigy Card

[raid517]

Hi I have problems with my creative audigy card. I installed the latest drivers from Creative Open Source and managed to get them to load. The drivers came with a script called audigy-script which basically loads your preferences. (Or at least I think that's what it does). To get the drivers to work first time I had to edit a preferences file to set it up for digital out and then run audigy-script.
I thought I was finished, as everything seemed to run normally. But now I have found that every time I reboot I must run the audigy script to reload my preferences again in order to get the card to work.

Also despite assigining my non root account to the audio group - and despite (in desperation) setting up my non root user account with super user equivalent privliges, no matter what I try I cannot get sound to work in anything more than my root account.

I am completely lost now as I have tried everything I know to get this card to function properly.

As a last resort, if no one has any other ideas, is there a way to set this audigy script up to run on each reboot for specific users? I don't think this will resolve the issue of having no sound in my non root account, but at least if I can find a way to run a specific script with full root privliges on each start up, it might be a partial resolution to this problem. (I would prefer it if there was a more practical/permanant solution though). (Why is there such paranoid security under Linux for sound anyway?)

I read somewhere that if I wanted non root users to hear sound too, I might have to edit prmissions for /dev/mixer but when I try to edit permissions for 'mixer' (in KDE) all the permissions options are greyed out, even in full root mode.

All suggestions are extremely welcome.

Regards,

Q

[Molecule Man]

You can add a line for your script to run in /etc/rc.local

You probably need to edit /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp0.

[raid517]

Ok thanks I got the first part, I'm not sure it will work yet though, as this is more of a hack than a solution. The settings should be automatically saved and loaded on each reboot. Will the script run with root prvliges when I reboot?

As for editing /dev/dsp I have three such listings. dsp, dsp- and dsp1. Out of all these only dsp- will allow me to change the priviges (even in root mode) with the other two the permissions options are greyed out.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant by editing them though. How would I go about doing that?

Q

[raid517]

Mmm well ok never mind. Just adding that script helped. It might be a hack of sorts, but what they hey if it works... Launching this script during boot appears to give all users access to sound. Exactly what I wanted. I knew you could do this sort of thing (start menu) in XP, so its good to know you can do it in linux too.

Thanks!!!

Q :)