On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:17:04PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:13:41PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> > Chris G wrote:
>>> >> I seem to need to give all users permissions on the devices
>>> >> in/dev/snd.
>>> >>
>>> >> However if I set the permissions to 0666 they revert to 0660 when I
>>> >> reboot the system. How do I get the more open permissions to stick?
>>> >>
>>> > What version of Fedora are you running? It makes a difference in how we
>>> > answer your question. If FC6, and I believe F7, they are controlled by
>>> > console.perms. For F8, you would probably have to add a udev rule to set
>>> > them - I have not checked for a rule for setting sound devices...
>>> >
>>> Yes, sorry, it's Fedora 8 where I have the problem. My previous
>>> Fedora 7 seemd to be OK.
>>
>> I think I'm in a similar situation. I often have two users logged in
>> simultaneously (:0 and :1), and I'd like both to be able to access
>> sound-related devices. In the past I fiddled with console.perms, but
>> I guess that's not the way F8 works. I'm curious if my occasional
>> inability to start the pulseaudio volume control ("connection
>> refused", I think) is related. (I just rebooted, and now it works for
>> me. I'm the first user to login [on :1], though. Maybe now it won't
>> work for :0 users?)
>>
>> Reid
>>
> From what you both are reporting, and the fact that the sound devices are
> owned by root instead of a user, I suspect that pulseaudio is controlling
> who has access to the sound devices something like console.perms did
> before. From what I have read in the man pages, it sounds like HAL talks to
> the pulseaudio daemon and tells it who can play sound. You may be able to
> change the configuration so that more then one user can use pluseaudio at
> the same time... (Don't ask me how - I have nto gotten that far.)
>
I don't want/need more than one user to be able to use it, just me!
:-)
Pulseaudio is installed but there's no daemon running.
--
Chris Green
