Bug 69731 - KMid tells uncorrectly that is unable to open /dev/sequencer
Summary: KMid tells uncorrectly that is unable to open /dev/sequencer
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kmid
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Antonio Larrosa
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Reported: 2003-12-06 15:44 UTC by Giulio Genovese
Modified: 2010-04-02 15:04 UTC (History)
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Version Fixed In: 2.2.2

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Description Giulio Genovese 2003-12-06 15:44:02 UTC 
Version:           2.0 (using KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:     (testing/unstable)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.22-1-686-smp

When I opened KMid it said to me the following:
"Couldn't open /dev/sequencer.
Probably there is another program using it."
There were no program using /dev/sequencer and it was set with the 666 permissions. So I straced the program and I got the following results:
"open("/dev/snd/seq", O_RDWR)            = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/dev/aloadSEQ", O_RDWR)           = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open("/dev/snd/seq", O_RDWR)            = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:446:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Permission denied"
To turn it fine it was enough to run the command "chmod 666 /dev/snd/seq" but the error KMid gave to me was not of much help. Fix it ;)
Giulio
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-12-06 17:06:55 UTC 
We can't change strings before KDE 3.3 any more.
Comment 2 Tony Seton 2007-03-23 23:31:34 UTC 
Same with Debian 3.1
Comment 3 Unknown 2010-04-02 15:04:46 UTC 
KMid 2.0 is now unmaintained.

There is a new KMid2 version for KDE4, released as KMid 2.2.2 in 2010 March 14th. It is a rewrite from scratch, with a different architecture and some new functionalities.

I'm closing this bug report because the old version is not going to be fixed, and the bug can't be reproduced in KMid2. Specifically, the "/dev/sequencer" interface of the old OSSv3 is not supported anymore.

Please test. Thanks.