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Re: Audio perms lost on laptop



On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:53:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 25-Oct-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > I've got a laptop with potato installed on it which has been
> > exhibiting a strange behaviour for a while now:  After resuming from
> > a suspend-to-disk, it will frequently (I'd say somewhere around
> > 2/3rds of the time) wake up with /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp*, and
> > /dev/mixer* all chmoded to 000.  Ownership is still root.audio and I
> > can get sound working again with a simple chmod 660 on those files,
> > but it's a real nuisance to have to do that all the time.

> are you using ALSA?  When the modules/scripts load and unload they may chmod
> the files and for some reason do it incorrectly.

I don't think so.  If I were, it would be built into the kernel,
though - I'm not a big fan of modules.

> another place to check is /etc/apm.d/... these scripts are run when various apm
> events happen -- batt low, suspend, resume, etc.

I'll have to check there when I get home tonight.

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