modules and permissions
Hi,
I have three questions related to installing the alsa sound modules in my
potato box. At the moment, the alsa sound modules are loaded into the
kernel at boot time. They are not specified in /etc/modules. They are
specified in /etc/modules.conf, but this should not cause them to be
loaded at boot time, correct? How do I get the alsa sound modules to be
loaded on demand, i.e. when an app tries to access /dev/dsp, instead of at
boot time.
Second, root has access to the sound devices and to the cdrom device, but
users do not. I have tried adding my user to the audio and cdrom groups
by appending the name to the audio and cdrom lines in /etc/group. This
didn't do the trick, though. What permissions do I need to set to allow
users access to audio and the cdrom device?
Finally, for some reason, I am having problems mounting cds in the cdrom
device. I on occasion get an error that the kernel does not recognize the
cdrom device as a block device. This may have something to do with the
fact that I installed scsi support and modules and ide-scsi emulation in
order to use the cd-rw functionality of the device. however, none of
these modules are loaded into the kernel at all, so they should not be
causing any conflicts, correct?
Of course, thanks in advance.
-Anthony.
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