[mdlug] Sound and permissions

[Jason]

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 19:52 -0400, Ron Blanchett wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > ----
> >
> > - Drew.
> >

It is entirely possible there is an SELinux policy denial. Do you have
SELinux enabled and if so is it permissive? 

As a side note, FC4 is rather old, a lot of sound problems have been
fixed/enhanced since then. If you have time, upgrading might be
something to consider..

-Jason
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