FC5 audio device permission problems
Anand Buddhdev
arb at anand.org
Sat Apr 1 11:56:32 UTC 2006
Hi people,
I upgraded my FC4 system to FC5 last night, using yum. I use KDE. Now I'm having
all sorts of problems with permissions for devices in /dev. I noticed
immediately that I could not play any sounds. It turns out that /dev/dsp was
owned by root, with mode 0600. I did "chown <myusername> /dev/dsp" and I could
play sounds. I had to do the same with /dev/mixer.
This morning, I discovered I could not play CDs because /dev/hdc is owned by
root.disk, with permissions 0660. Now, I can add myself to the "disk" group, but
again, it's a hack. Under FC4, everything worked fine.
I've looked through the release notes, and I can't find anything to say that
there has been a major change with default device permissions. Do I need to make
any change to my system to get all this to work without problems? Or is this a
bug that I should go file?
--
Anand
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