[mdlug] Sound and permissions

Ron Blanchett muteid10t at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 19:52:45 EDT 2008


Add yourself to whatever group there is for sound.

On 9/14/08, Drew <drew4096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the sound seems to work perfectly well if I'm logged in as
> root, while Youtube videos are
> silent if I'm logged in as drew. (Fedora Core 4.) So as was pointed
> out it's likely a permissions
> problem.
>
> So the obvious solution seems to be going through all the
> sound-related files, directories, and
> devices and chmodding them to allow liberal access.
>
> Only, the one that I know of, /dev/dsp, I changed from 600 to 666
> with no effect. AND the owner
> is the drew account, though the group is set to root.
>
> So, what are all the files, directories, and devices that have
> anything to do with sound?
>
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>
> - Drew.
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