I startup baudline and it says “all input devices disabled” and the input devices window doesn have any /dev/audios, it is empty. What do I do?
Here are two possible explanations for this: • You don’t have a properly configured audio card. • Or you don’t have read and write privileges for /dev/audio or /dev/mixer. This happens in Mandrake 7.1 if user A is logged into the X console and user B remotely tries to access the audio device. For security reasons Mandrake 7.1 changes the user of the /dev/audio devices to the user that is logged at the X console and removes group and other read/write permissions. Check if this is the case by doing a ls -l /dev/audio* command. You can then run baudline as root or su’d as that user or as root do a chmod go+rw /dev/audio* command. If your audio card is half duplex you will see it in the input devices window. Now if another program such as the enlightenment sound daemon (esd), baudline, or an MP3 player is currently using or holding the /dev/audio open then you will see the “all input devices disabled” message. The solution is to stop the other program from running or make it close the audi
