UDEV on FC5

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Sun Apr 30 20:52:16 UTC 2006


Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I loaded Fedora Core 5 and notice that udev is part of the bootup. I 
> think this is why in this new version, 2 applications called gMFSK and 
> XLog do not work now. They both require excess to /dev/ttyS0 and 
> /dev/dsp and udev is not giving these to it when the user is non-root.
> 
On my system, /dev/dsp is owned by my user by default (user peter, group 
root); and /dev/ttyS0 is owned by user root, group uucp (R/W for both). 
You could add yourself to the uucp group to get access to the ttyS0 
device node:

# gpasswd -a username uucp

Hope that helps somewhat...
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