Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:13:17
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound
> Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:48:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 09:40:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Friday 22 January 2016 07:44:49 Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >
> > > That has to be done inside of udev, udev is the one ring that binds
> > > them all.
> > Not nesessarily. When I rebooted sometime in late December, apparently a
> > udev update had decided that only root could use /dev/ttyUSB0 [...]
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> > So I got out a root copy of nano, and put the fix in /etc/r.local [...]
>
> > And heyu is now a happy camper again.
> >
> > Sure, someone is going to yell at me [...]
>
> Hey, I for one am not going to. And if anyone does, send them to me: I'm
> a member of the RightsToRoot movement and will take care of that :-)
>
> After all we bought free software in order to tinker with it.
>
> Regards
> - -- tom?s
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One thing udev or the linux kernel is going to have to get over fast is 
its fixation on the 3.5MM jack for speakers.  Newer hardware sooner 
rather than later will not be including those jacks any longer.  Probably 
the first noticeable instance will be Apple and what Apple does with its 
next generation of iPhones but we shall know better when those come out.

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