No sound in rawhide

Sachin ascii79 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 13:22:58 UTC 2009


i added myself to the pulse-access and audio group ..


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas at broadpark.no> wrote:

> on., 17.06.2009 kl. 11.44 -0700, skrev Ray Van Dolson:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:06:36AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Ray Van Dolson<rayvd at bludgeon.org>
> wrote:
> > > > Hmm, I just always figured I was supposed to add myself to the audio
> > > > group.  So these files are supposed to be owned by my local user
> > > > account when I log in eh?
> > >
> > > No...  you should be added to the acl list associated to the device if
> > > you are the physical console user as per the authorization policy
> > > managed by PolicyKit.  This it how it works from at least F10 onward.
> > > Mucking around with file ownership directly is "old think." The system
> > > scripts associated with pam use to do that on user login and
> > > logout...but has been replaced with the more flexible solution
> > > involving acls that PolicyKit based hardware access authorization
> > > makes use of.
> > >
> > >
> > > for example on the F10 system I'm on right now:
> > > ls -la /dev/snd/seq
> > > crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 3 2009-06-17 07:07 /dev/snd/seq
> > >
> > >
> > > getfacl /dev/dsp
> > > # file: dev/snd/seq
> > > # owner: root
> > > # group: root
> > > user::rw-
> > > user:myuser:rw-
> > > group::rw-
> > > mask::rw-
> > > other::---
> > >
> > > I do not own the file in the traditional Unix permissions sense. But I
> > > am listed in the acl list with read write access.  If your user is not
> > > in the acl list, something misfired in the area of the PolicyKit based
> > > authorization handling.
> >
> > Good to know.  I've checked the acl list in the past and definitely
> > wasn't a member.
> >
> > I'll have to remove myself from audio and see if I can track this down.
> >
> Did you find anything? I'm still seeing this problem with rawhide as of
> today.
>
> Cheers
> Kjartan
>
>
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