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Shemeta

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Registered: 2004-02-11

Posts: 117

Permission problems

Hi Arch community,

i have problems with the permissions. i run the following commands :

chown -R root.audio /dev/sound
chmod 770 /dev/sound
chmod 660 /dev/sound/*

so my sound would work. i have all needed modules in /dev/sound/  but when i restart my comp, i get the error from GNOME, "Can't open /dev/sound/mixer"

after reboot i don't access & permission rights to the directory /dev/sound . any other suggestions?

# Allow access to sound devices for group "audio"
REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660

i also added myself to the group audio. so i have no clue what else to try.

any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot, Shemeta

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Permission problems

did you add the group audio to your system ?

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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,488

Re: Permission problems

good question.

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i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: Permission problems

# Allow access to sound devices for group "audio"
REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 0660

I would just change that to:

REGISTER ^sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 0660
REGISTER ^snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.users 0660