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> 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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