Mike Leone on Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:47:42 -0500


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[PLUG] Re: Sound in KDE2


> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:51:29PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> > Not speaking from any special personal knowledge of any KDE at all
> > here, but is it possible that KDE1's TakeConsole (kludgely) grabs
> > ownership (at least group ownership) of /dev/audio and KDE2 expects
> > /dev/audio to be owned by the group, say, operator, of which you're
> > not member (and should be, historically, since you have access to
> > the console)?
> 
> Interesting point.  I've still got KDE1 on my home desktop machine, and I
> get sound just fine.
> 
> bj@morpheus:~$ ls -l /dev/audio
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 Jul  5 13:44 /dev/audio
> bj@morpheus:~$ id
> uid=1000(bj) gid=1000(bj) groups=1000(bj),<snip>,29(audio),<snip>

Huh. I have no audio group, for my id to join. 

But sound works - when I pop in an audio CD, when logged in as my non-root user, everything works
fine. Or is that not applicable to the problem?

> 
> I've found that the first place I should look when I run into weird
> problems like that is at permissions.  (Not that I always follow my own
> advice/eat my own dog food, which usually results in me banging my head
> against the wall for a while...)

Woof, woof. :-)

> 
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