On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Alessandro Amici wrote: > hi, > > I installed potato and now upgraded to 2.2r1 and have a problem with > sound. > permissions of the /dev/dsp* devices are crw-rw---- and ownership is > root.audio. > this seem to be sane if as a counterpart audio applications were owned > by root.audio and set sgid, but this is not the case! > I checked mpg123 and xmms, they are all not able to write to /dev/dsp* > devices. no, the idea behind root.audio 0660 permissions is to restrict access to the sound hardware only to trusted users, otherwise any bozo with a shell account can play any sound they want which could be potentially annoying. the proper solution is to add yourself to group audio: adduser me audio > changing owner and permissions everything works. don't do that, add yourself to group audio instead. > did I mess up something in the installation? depends what permissions you used. > is there a standard way to make all audio apps working properly? yes, add yourself to group audio -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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