RE: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Gran [mailto:steve@lobefin.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2003 3:38 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem
>
>
> This one time, at band camp, Aryan Ameri said:
> > On Monday 20 January 2003 18:41, Jon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The module you need is 'es1371' for the Vibra 128 chipset. I put
> > > this on a line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded up each time. If
> > > you haven't done so already, you also need to add yourself to the
> > > audio group:
> > >
> > > adduser your_name audio
>
> This is correct.
>
> > > And also change the permissions on the audio devices:
> > >
> > > chmod o+rw /dev/dsp*
> > > chmod o+rw /dev/mixer*
>
> No, no, a thousand times no. /dev/dsp is readable and
> writable by a user and a group already, why make it
> accessible to the whole world? What you have just done is
> bypass standard *NIX permission protections, and allowed
> anyone with a connection to your box to play music through
> your speakers or listen to you through your microphone.
>
Thankyou! That seems quite obvious. I probably fiddled with the
permissions _before_ I realised about the audio group, in an attempt to
get sound working the first time and stop seeing error messages. There
must be a lot of little things like this that I do to get the right
result but perhaps not in the right way :-/
Jon.
> When you have these sort of problems, it's better to learn
> the way to resolve them that works within the existing
> framework (as adding a user to group audio does) than totally
> bypassing the existing filesystem layer of protection.
> Habits learned early tend to stick, so it's better to learn
> the right way early on.
>
> > > After that you should have sound. At least, that works for me.
>
> Unfortunately, so will everyone else )-:
>
> > Thanks Jon, it worked wonderfully
>
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