[vdr] Re: Trouble with softdevice and sound

[Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 16:27 +0200, Thomas Schloßmacher wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  i've insalled VDR with softcevice for my 
>  "TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI".
>  After activating the plugin VRD does'nt start anymore.
>  There ist following error-meaasage shown:
>  [softdevice-audio] Opening alsa device plughw:0,0 
>  [softdevice-audio] Playback open error: plughw:0,0, 
>  Permission denied FATAL exiting

Did you try running as root? 

Check that there is no sound server running (if you're using kde or
gnome).

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Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@pobox.com>