UDEV on FC5

[Karl Larsen]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> 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...
    Hi Peter I did make my user name karl a member of uucp but it still 
can't use /dev/ttyS0 for some reason. Also it complains that /dev/dsp is 
busy and can't be used. Does that make sense?

Karl