[FC4] /dev/dsp permissions problems

V V felhasznal0 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 17 02:50:45 UTC 2005


Err, My problem is that I have no audio in KDE. It
complains about permission denied. If I manually set
permissions I have sound in KDE... TIA

--- V V <felhasznal0 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just upgraded my FC3 to FC4. After the upgrade my
> /dev/dsp, dev/mixer are set to:
> 
> crw-------  1 root root 14, 3 Jun 16 17:19 /dev/dsp
> crw-------  1 root root 14, 0 Jun 16 17:19
> /dev/mixer
> 
> 
> I tried setting /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules to:
> 
> SUBSYSTEM="sound",              GROUP="audio"
> # audio devices
> KERNEL=="dsp*",                 GROUP="audio",
> MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="audio*",               GROUP="audio",
> MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="midi*",                MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="mixer*",               GROUP="audio",
> MODE="0660"
> 
> I have a group audio with gid = 504
> 
> when I run udevtest this is the output:
> 
> # udevtest /sys/class/sound/dsp dsp
> udevtest.c: looking at device '/class/sound/dsp'
> from
> subsystem 'sound'
> udevtest.c: opened class_dev->name='dsp'
> udev_rules.c: no rule found, use kernel name 'dsp'
> udev_add.c: creating device node '/dev/dsp', major =
> '14', minor = '3', mode = '0660', uid = '0', gid =
> '504'
> 
> this would indicate that the device would be created
> with 0660 for root.audio but it's not.
> 
> If I manually set the permissions/owner device works
> fine...
> 
> here's some additional info:
> # lsmod | grep snd
> snd_trident            52581  0
> gameport               18633  2 snd_trident
> snd_ac97_codec         75961  1 snd_trident
> snd_seq_dummy           3653  0
> snd_seq_oss            37057  0
> snd_seq_midi_event      9153  1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq                62289  5
> snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_pcm_oss            51185  0
> snd_mixer_oss          17857  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm               100169  3
> snd_trident,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              33605  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc          9669  2 snd_trident,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            4673  1 snd_trident
> snd_mpu401_uart        10049  1 snd_trident
> snd_rawmidi            30305  1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device          8781  5
>
snd_trident,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
> snd                    57157  11
>
snd_trident,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore              10913  1 snd
> 
> 
> The audio device is a crappy onboard AC97 device.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
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