Hi all, I'm having some trouble getting audio CDs to play as an unpriviledged user. I am able to do so as root though, so it looks to me like a permission problem. I am able to send various audio files to /dev/dsp and /dev/audio as root. I have sound working in Ximian GNOME as a normal user. I added my normal user account to the audio group, thinking that this would solve the problem, but it didn't seem to. I have changed permissions on a couple of the audio device files, but I still seem to be having some trouble. changing the file access permissions for /dev/mixer to 666 allowed me to start gmix (I was not able to before). I'm just a little leary of changing all the files' permissions, which was the primary reason for adding myself to the audio group.
Here are some listing for [all|some|???] my audioi-related files. mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/mixer* crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 0 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 16 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 32 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 48 Nov 30 2000 /dev/mixer3 mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/midi* crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 0 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi00 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 18 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi01 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 34 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi02 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 50 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi03 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 1 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 2 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 35, 3 Nov 30 2000 /dev/midi3 mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/audio* crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 20 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 36 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 52 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio3 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 7 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audioctl mordor:/dev# ls -l /dev/dsp* crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp2 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Nov 30 2000 /dev/dsp3 All this is on a self-rolled 2.2.19pre17 kernel. Any clues? Thanks in advance! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>