Re: [expert] Sound changes permissions?
At 04:34 16/11/99 -0900, you wrote: >I don't know how to set things right again. >I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me >with this it would be appreciated. chown root /dev/dsp chown root /dev/audio do that as root Regards Geoff Croxson --- Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 University of Technology, Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Sound changes permissions?
Well one of the things in 6.1 that didn't give me trouble was sound. My AWE 32 was recognized and has worked for many apps with no prob, until now. I had previously done a chmod a+rw /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp* etc to get all users working as well as root. mp3s, SoundStudio, realplayerG2, Speakfreely, everything was working fine,until now I can't be sure what I did (or was it me?) Anyhow upon attempting to run a sound realated program I got all kinds of error messages as user so switched to root. Same thing: an 'ls -l /dev/audio' gives me: 'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/audio' 'ls -l /dev/dsp' gives me: 'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp' Obviously something is wrong here !? bill is a user shouldn't that be root instead? I don't know how to set things right again. I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me with this it would be appreciated. If it is something else then I would like to know that as well. Once again, this was a perfectly functioning L-M 6.1 Sound system which suddenly is now dead. William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska
Re: [expert] Sound changes permissions?
I answered part of this already (yes i read email backwards), but i'll
fill in some more here.
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, WH Bouterse wrote:
> Well one of the things in 6.1 that didn't give me trouble was sound.
> My AWE 32 was recognized and has worked for many apps with no prob,
> until now.
>
> I had previously done a chmod a+rw /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp* etc
> to get all users working as well as root.
> mp3s, SoundStudio, realplayerG2, Speakfreely, everything was working
> fine,until now
>
> I can't be sure what I did (or was it me?) Anyhow upon attempting to run
> a sound realated program I got all kinds of error messages as user so
> switched to root.
> Same thing: an 'ls -l /dev/audio' gives me:
> 'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/audio'
> 'ls -l /dev/dsp' gives me:
> 'crw-rw-rw-1 bill audio 14, 4 Apr 17 1999 /dev/dsp'
The only thing unusual here is the permissions (you reapplied the chmod
a+rw, i assume)
> Obviously something is wrong here !? bill is a user shouldn't that be
> root instead?
No it is correct, PAM will set the owning user of the sound devices to the
first person that logs in at the console, and reset it to root when they
logout.
> I don't know how to set things right again.
> I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me
> with this it would be appreciated.
#this resets the owner:group and permissions
chmod u+rw g+rw o-rw /dev/{audio,dsp,mixer}*
chown root:audio /dev/{audio,dsp,mixer}*
Now add your self or users to the audio group, and you should have no
problems
> If it is something else then I would like to know that as well.
>
> Once again, this was a perfectly functioning L-M 6.1 Sound system which
> suddenly
> is now dead.
(/sbin/lsmod |grep -q sound) || mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:) make sure the modules load, if they aren't maybe run the setup again
(pci sux)
> William Bouterse
> Juneau, Alaska
>
Re: [expert] Sound changes permissions?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Geoff Croxson wrote: > At 04:34 16/11/99 -0900, you wrote: > >I don't know how to set things right again. > >I am very clueless concerning permissions so if someone could help me > >with this it would be appreciated. > chown root /dev/dsp > chown root /dev/audio may need to reset the group also, and you've left out /dev/mixer ;) chown root:audio /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* > do that as root > > > Regards > > Geoff Croxson > --- > Page me http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1120068 > Senior Micro-Computing Support Officer Ph: 9514 1218 > Humanities and Social Sciences Fax:9514 1041 > University of Technology, Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
