On 1/26/08, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IIRC, this has already been discussed here, but somehow I failed to find the > right threads in the archives. :-( > > So, on a new freshly installed&updated F8 system working in runlevel 3, two > problems struck me. > > 1) Sound does not work: alsamixer, aplay, mplayer, xmms, kmix, whatever..., > say that they don't have permissions (I am not at the machine atm, sorry for > missing exact error report). If i start KDE/Gnome, everything just works like > magic. I did try naively to fiddle with perms of /dev/dsp, but that doesn't > work. > I've no idea what the correct way to do this is, but I got it to work as I wanted it by putting the following in /etc/security/console.perms.d/60-sound.perms: # device classes -- these are shell-style globs <sound>=/dev/dsp /dev/adsp /dev/snd/* # permission definitions <console> 0666 <sound> 0666 root.pulse-access # end of file You probably want to make this more restrictive, e.g by adding yourself to pulse-access and making the permissions 0660 > 2) Automounting doesn't work: if I put a cd in the drive, flash mem in usb > port, or similar, a mount point is not created in /media and the media is not > mounted. Again, if I work inside KDE/Gnome, this does work. > > I know that KDE and Gnome have their own facilities for this, but I need it > working in rl3. What am I supposed to configure, and what is the Right Way to > configure it? I don't run gnome or kde. To get this functionality I manually run gnome-volume-manager. I've never tried it in rl3, but it might work. Regards, Chris
