On Tuesday 07 June 2005 15:01, Mike S wrote: <snip> > > I thank you martin, that cracked it, atleast for now, haven't restarted > the computer yet, but I did modprobe snd-powermac, and that loaded all > the snd modules, and then I changes the group id of /dev/dsp so that my > user's group had permission to it, and long story short three logout's > later kde finally uttered sound on startup and did not give me the > /dev/dsp not found or /dev/dsp (permission Denied) errors. looks like > there's a lot of subtle little differences in debian and ubuntu, as it > looks like I am going to have to change o lot of group id's just so I > can access them without being root. No! There's a point to these group-ids. The correct way to allow yourself to write to /dev/dsp is to add yourself to the audio group, as a secondary group, *not* chmod the device. This applies to any other devices which are owned by 'special' groups. David > Thanks again, > --Mike S -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s-: a-- C++ UL++++ P L+++ E--- W++ N+ o+ K- w--- O M V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t 5- X+ R- tv+ b+ DI++ D+ G+ e++ h r% y++ s-: e++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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