some USB audio help please?

[Collins]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:18:28 -0400 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com>
wrote:
> Scribbling feverishly on April 25, Net Llama! managed to emit:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Excellent, thanks guys.  Next question is what are the correct
> > ownership 
> >   & permissions for all of these devices (dsp, mixer, audio)?  The
> >   2 
> > sets listed above aren't identical.  I'm *NOT* using KDE, just
> > xfce, so I think that the whole take and give scripts aren't
> > applicable (although i could be wrong).
> 
> Good question. I wonder if the permissions vary from distro to
> distro? I'm using Slackware 8.0 and the commercial 4Front drivers -
> they just work and I've had my license for a long time. I don't know
> what David's using, but I *do* think it depends on how your distro
> sets up permissions at boot.

Some distros work by group (e.g. audio) and use group membership to
control the device.  I've never been too concerned about securing a
sound device, so I make them all 666.  You certainly don't need
execute.


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