'Twas brillig, and Thomas Lübking at 10/04/11 18:41 did gyre and gimble: > Sorry cannot discontinue, #1 is relevant to the public. > > Am 10.04.2011, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Donn Washburn <n5...@comcast.net>: >> #1 not being set keep k3b, amarok and vlc (ones I play with) not to work >> before recent issues. > You have /explicitly/ been told that this is a "wrong" (bad) solution (aka > "naive workaround") > I struggle to believe that SuSE doesn't explicitly add users to the audio > group or resets the devnodes to root:root or similar but I don't know for > sure either. (Last SuSE versions used was 10.3 were this was not the > case), however and > > To put that straight and very clear for you and everyone: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > "chmod 666 /dev/snd/*" etc IS PLAIN WRONG. - do NOT! > Just add your user account to the audio group or whatever group has proper > permissions on those nodes. > Any sane Desktop distro should do that anyway and as a certified retired > whatever and long time *nix user you actually should know that ;-P
This is also wrong. You should very rarely have to add a user to the audio group. If you do that on a typical desktop (i.e. not dedicated/embedded) box, you're almost certainly doing something wrong (or your distro is). Any modern system uses console-kit and udev to apply ACLs, not groups for permissions. As I stated in another reply, adding users to the audio group will in many cases break audio in the case of e.g. fast-user switching. Please do not fiddle with anything manually. If ck-list-sessions does not report your user as "ACTIVE" then you should not have permission, if it does report you as active, then something with ck/udev or similar is busted and should be reported to the appropriate authorities! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
