[vox-tech] Sound Trouble with trident module

[David Margolis]

Rusty,

The way that you did is definatley the better way to do it.  The chmod 666
/dev/soundstuff is a quick way to do it.  Since my laptop doesn't run any
services of have any users besides myself, I think it's the easiest for
me.

If you have any users, it's a bad idea.  Maybe I'll reconsider doing it
the group way!

Dave

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Rusty Minden wrote:

> I added the user (myself) to the /etc/group file under audio. It is working
> fine now. I didn't want to mess with the security too much.
>
> Thanks for your help with this Dave. I was worried about just changing
> permissions without knowing at least 50% what I was up to. The laptop (woody)
> is coming along really nice I must say and I am learning how to do things
> without yast and yast2 (SuSE). I have to say I don't miss them anymore :-)
>
> Rusty
>
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 04:13 pm, you wrote:
> > Rusty,
> >
> > I've read that this isn't the most secure way to do this, but I don't know
> > why sound would necessarly be a security issue (anyone out there pipe in
> > if you have an opinion on this)...
> >
> > chmod 666 /dev/dsp*
> > chmod 666 /dev/audio*
> > chmod 666 /dev/mixer*
> >
> > also, for convenience of playing audio cds
> > chmod 666 /dev/cdrom* (this one is probably a bad idea if you ever intend
> > to have priate files on a cdrom).
> >
> >
> > The other method for dealing with giving sound to users was only
> > slightly more involved and I believe it had to do with creating a group
> > that had ownership to these devices and adding appropriate users to this
> > group.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Rusty Minden wrote:
> > > I have compiled the trident module and as root it works sound is fine,
> > > but as a user it will not work. It has to be a permission thing or
> > > perhaps a group membership, but I am not sure.
> > >
> > > ALi Sound Card (tridentt.o module)
> > > I noticed that the /dev/aidio has owner root and group audio should I add
> > > myself to the group?
> > >
> > > Rusty
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