> This is what you get in F8:
>
> crw-rw----+ 1 root root 14, 3 2008-04-03 13:18
> /dev/dsp
>
> Note the '+' following the dashes. This indicates
> that ACLs are
> involved.
Johan,
Sorry, the command to list all the groups that the
current user belongs to should be "groups".
There are different ways to setup the group owner of
that /dev/dsp device. I don't know what the "+" on
the permission flags in your case means at the moment.
Anyway, you should change the group ownership of
/dev/dsp to any group that your userid belongs to,
preferrably audio related group, or the user's own
group (group name same as userid).
Also, Red Hat deals more with the server apps, they
don't even deal (test, customize) much with the
Desktop apps, let alone audio, video apps, which
requires more configuration and sound card(s) setup.
I did try Red Hat, and Debian and others, too. I was
struggling to set up audio apps properly for a year or
more. Even then I still didn't know how to use Jackd
(the Jack audio connection kit).
Until I tried a couple of the audio specific distros
with liveCD. The one that helped me most at that time
was Musix liveCD (Debian compatible). I didn't
install it at first, just boot up from the liveCD and
try to see how it configured those apps, and
permission info for the devices under /dev/ directory.
Launching some apps that uses Jackd would
automatically launch Jackd first and all those apps
work very well, I didn't have to do a thing. It was
very good learning from that. In fact it was
invaluable to me, otherwise I sould have struggled
many more months with audio related apps. I suggest
you should try that approach, too.
What I did afterward was to install Musix liveCD on
its own partition of the hard drive, and my normal
Linux distribution on a separate partition. Trying to
see the configuration files and permissions of /dev/
devices helped me learn alot. Now that I know how
things work, I use my distro of choice and configure
the apps myself, still take a bit more customization
(configuration) than I would like but I get to use my
choice of distro.
There are other liveCDs with audio users in mind, most
of them allow you to install to any partition on your
hard drive, too. Thare are at least: JAD (Jack Audio
Distribution), 64 Studio, Musix, Ubuntu Studio, Planet
CCRMA, Agnula, ... Of which, I think only Planet
CCRMA is RPM (or RedHat) based, if you prefer to stay
with RPM distros.
Debian way of managihg apps and their repositories are
very different from RPM distros. But if you use
Synaptic package manager, or Kpackage manager, it is a
moot point.
Jimmy
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