KDE3.1.1a compiled and install now sound is root only

James McDonald james
Mon May 17 11:46:59 PDT 2004


Thanks for the pointers guys and yes you are right it was perms based

With my mandrake system the sound devs are all symlinked from
/dev/devicename --> /dev/sound/devicename as a standard user I couldn't
even ls the /dev/sound directory.

so the fix was

chmod 666 /dev/sound -Rv
chmod 4755 /opt/bin/artswrapper

I think that's all I did anyway and now it works.

I will have to wait till a reboot till I find out if console.perms is
going to reset everything to not work again.




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