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Re: Upgrade to Woody, Sucess!



John Gay wrote:
> 
>--snip--<
> 
> The only other problem I have is no sound. I can su to root in a terminal and
> play midi files with timidity, so it's obviously just a simple config problem
> like not being in the audio group or some such but this is minor.
> 

That is EXACTLY the problem...Woody doesn't come this way "out of the
box".  You have to add all your users to the audio group and then do a
re-boot.  You can use the KDE "user manager" to do this rather easily or
you can use the "addgroup" at a root command-line prompt.  

There is something "fishy" about the cdrom permissions too.  I could not
play audio CDs as a user, again because of a permissions problem.  The
problem seems to be on the actual device  itself (/dev/hdc) rather than
on the /dev/cdrom, which is just a sym-link.  I changed my /dev/hdc and
/dev/hdd (both CDROMS) to 777 and it started working ok.  This probably
causes some sort of security hole, but I can live with it....
All things are working nicely now!

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-



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