ALSA privs meltdown

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

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On Jan 13, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Dan Barrett wrote:
>
> # ALSA/OSS stuff
> # Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on
> # the audio devices
> REGISTER        sound/.*     PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
> REGISTER        snd/.*       PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
>
> Here's what /dev/sound looks like:
>
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   4 Dec 31  1969 audio
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   3 Dec 31  1969 dsp
> crw-------    1 root     audio     14,   0 Dec 31  1969 mixer

crw------- is not the same as 660 (per your devfs.conf file). I would 
suggest as a temporary test:

chmod -R g+rw /dev/sound/*
chmod -R g+rw /dev/snd/*

And then restart KDE's sound server. That should work. When you reboot, 
devfs should apply those same permissions again, however, it might not, 
which would indicate something is wrong.

Did you run etc-update after you upgraded you packages? Sometimes newer 
versions of packages require their config files to be updated as well.

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