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   Henrik Carlqvist  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:21:16 +0000, root wrote:   
   >> Regardless of whether I run as root, or get sound on chrome, rc.alsa   
   >> should install something that can be seen by ps aux.   
   >> It does not.   
   >   
   > rc.alsa simply loads some kernel modules and calls some tools which using   
   > ioctls makes some settings like mixer levels. Alsa is basically a set of   
   > drivers for your sound hardware, alsa in itself does not provide any kind   
   > of daemon and no running daemon is needed to use your sound hardware.   
   > However, without a daemon mixing sound from different applications, you   
   > might have sound devices like /dev/audio which only is usable by one   
   > application at a time.   
   >   
   > I must admit that I am not very familiar with the sound mechanisms of   
   > pulsaudio. Did you try the advice from Marco to check the return value   
   > from "pulseaudio --check"?   
   >   
   > Chrome is a third party software in Slackware, not included in stock   
   > Slackware. Do you get sound from any stock browser like Firefox,   
   > Konqueror or Seamonkey?   
   >   
   > I agree with Marco that running a web browser as the root user is a   
   > recipe for  disaster. Any security hole in the browser will give a   
   > malicous web site complete access to your entire system.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
   Thanks for responding Henrik. I ran Firefox and there is no sound   
   for that either. Mplayer runs when I tell it the alsa plug address   
   and the system has sound for the speaker tests.   
      
   As far as running as root, from my console I can run nine computers   
   on my network, not all of which are running at any one time. Six   
   are running 24/7. All my operations on the perpetual machines have   
   always been run as root. I only run a browser on one of those   
   machines, the one that now has no sound. I will try to think about   
   what file permissions I would have to change if I ran the browser   
   as an ordinary user.   
      
   As far as pulseaudio, I can get sound on the machine I am writing   
   now. I only ventured into pulseaudio in hopes that it might   
   solve the sound problem on the other machine. After 5 hours   
   I know I never want anything to do with pulseaudio, or as   
   I believe its relative systemd.   
      
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