Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'

[Harvey Ussery <huboxwood@earthlink.net>]

Matt Weber wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:04 -0500, Harvey Ussery wrote:
>  
>
> > I recently reinstalled Sarge PPC on a G4 iMac. Each time I boot up now, 
> > I get an error warning:
> >
> > "Error:   Wrong permission for 'dev/pmu' device"
> >    
> >
> >    
> I had this problem also.  If I remember correctly it is a known error
> with ppc udev and gnome.  Anyways to fix it this is what I did.
>
> Add this line:
>
> pmu:root:video:0660
>
> to /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions
>
> Then make sure your user is in the video group.  Hope this fixes your
> problems.  Good luck.
>  
Thanks for the help, Matt. I did as advised, rebooted, and now I don't 
get the error message. However, I still have no sound. (Not 
surprised--my researches had already concluded pmu is about power mgmnt 
rather than audio anyway.)

That'll be a separate post.

--Harvey