Audio CD Problems with Potato

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>]

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged
user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a
permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp
and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a
normal user. I added my normal user account to the audio group,
thinking that this would solve the problem, but it didn't seem to. I
have changed permissions on a couple of the audio device files, but I
still seem to be having some trouble. changing the file access
permissions for /dev/mixer to 666 allowed me to start gmix (I was not
able to before). I'm just a little leary of changing all the files'
permissions, which was the primary reason for adding myself to the
audio group.

Here are some listing for [all|some|???] my audioi-related files.

mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/mixer*
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     audio     14,   0 Nov 30  2000 /dev/mixer
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  16 Nov 30  2000 /dev/mixer1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  32 Nov 30  2000 /dev/mixer2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  48 Nov 30  2000 /dev/mixer3
mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/midi*
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     35,   0 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   2 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi00
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  18 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi01
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  34 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi02
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  50 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi03
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     35,   1 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     35,   2 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     35,   3 Nov 30  2000 /dev/midi3
mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/audio*
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 Nov 30  2000 /dev/audio
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  20 Nov 30  2000 /dev/audio1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  36 Nov 30  2000 /dev/audio2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  52 Nov 30  2000 /dev/audio3
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   7 Nov 30  2000 /dev/audioctl
mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/dsp*  
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Nov 30  2000 /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  19 Nov 30  2000 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  35 Nov 30  2000 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  51 Nov 30  2000 /dev/dsp3

All this is on a self-rolled 2.2.19pre17 kernel.

Any clues? Thanks in advance!
-- 
Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>