How do I get sound to work in FC3?

harald kapper hk at kapper.net
Sun Apr 24 09:15:06 UTC 2005


kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com schrieb:
> I just installed FC3 on a box that was pre-loaded with Linspire. I checked out 
> Linspire out of curiosity and the sound worked fine. Then I wiped the box and 
> installed FC3 because running as root all the time via Linspire is simply not 
> an option. Most everything went well but I have no sound. 
> 
> I'm not sure even how to start debugging sound issues
> 
> Any help/tips?
> 

does sound work as root -> if so you got a permission issue - look 
there: man 5 console.perms

I changed the /etc/security/console.perms the line to:
<console>  0666 <sound>      0666 root

so any user can access the sound devices -> voilá :)

regards
harald kapper




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