[26638] in Athena Bugs
XStartup does not frob /dev/snd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin A Riggle)
Tue Sep 27 17:11:47 2005
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:11:12 -0400
From: Kevin A Riggle <kevinr@mit.edu>
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OLC got a user question yesterday about enabling sound on the new
HP workstations in the cluster. After poking around, I discovered
that the /dev/snd directory was not getting chown'd/chmod'ed to the
current user by XStartup, which prevents normal users from getting
access to the sound device. The full discussion is message 54830=20
in the 'oother' discuss meeting.
Each user should get mixer defaults somehow so that channels are
by default unmuted and set to non-earsplitting levels, however that
ends up being implemented, as well. (This is a longstanding issue
with Fedora-derived distributions.)
- Kevin
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Kevin A Riggle (kevinr@mit.edu)
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