On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: > Thanks Derek and bascule. > > I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users > works fine. > > Have also put them both in 'audio' group.... > I said I was a newbie so... > > how do i give the audio group rw perms? > also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the <sound> line > results in BOTH users losing sound, is this because audio group needs > the rw perms. > > ( I,m learning, honest I am!) > > Peter > > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:29, bascule wrote: > > i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave > > started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you > > will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when > > someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the > > sound devices will be owned by the first logged in user and stay that way > > if someone else logs on in the meantime, to fix this you can comment out > > the relevant lines, and then make your users members of the audio group, > > also make sure that you alter the perms of the file to give the audio > > group rw perms, do this for other device files that the other user might > > need access to, although this works for me to allow my daughter to log on > > and play music, i would appreciate if some expert could explain why it is > > that the references (in my case) to the device files for my nvidia card > > don't need to be changed for another user to log on, how does that work? > > > > bascule
It it works then there is no need to do anything with the perms. As I said, it is not normally required. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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