Re: [PLUG] /dev/audio on mandrake 8.1, permission problem?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 13:09, cf so wrote:
> > > i had to change the permissions of /dev/dsp and
> > /dev/mixer on woody to allow
> > > a non-root user to listen to music I did chmod 666
> >  on both not sure if that
> > > is absolutley correct but it works for me
> 
> The problem is that Mandrake 8.1 uses something called
> devfs,and the /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer seems to be
> localed at /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer and it
> seems to crate a link at /dev/ whenever the moduled
> and working. I tried to make a symbolic link
> /dev/audio pointing at /dev/sound/audio. don't work,

When using DevFS, you can set permissions in the /etc/devfsd.conf file,
for the devices entries created by DevFS, by using the PERMISSIONS
option, I believe.


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