[maemo-users] FM Radio broken after re-flash

[From: Tony Green]

I had to re-flash my N800 because (I think) the GPE Calendar applet was 
causing it to go into a reboot loop. Since re-flashing and re-installing 
everything, all my apps are working except the FM radio. Initially it was 
complaining about being unable to access /dev/radio0, which is owned by root 
and only accessible to users in the video group, but this seems to have been 
fixed by purging the package and re-installing it, but I'm still getting no 
sound out of it. Audio works fine from other apps, such as the media player.

Running /usr/bin/fmradio from the command-line gets the following output:

snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
fmradio[1333]: GLIB DEBUG default -     dbus call force_loudspeaker_off 
sucsess
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied
fmradio[1333]: GLIB DEBUG default - Set volume failed
snd_hctl_open(master) failed: Permission denied

Suggesting something to do with snd_hctl, which I can find no reference to on 
the Maemo site (amazingly, Google only returns a single entry for snd_hctl!)

Any suggestions gratefully received - it's not an app I use every day, but 
it's very useful at times...
-- 
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
http://www.beermad.org.uk
http://no2id-ip.web-brewer.co.uk