Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] No such device using ALSA drivers
From: Reinier Bos (bosr_AT_xs4all.nl)
Date: Thu Dec 26 2002 - 20:23:06 EET
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:50:16PM +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 05:56:42PM +0100, Reinier Bos wrote:
> >if I do an ll on the /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p the permissions, etc look fine:
> > - ll /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 116, 19 Dec 26 17:54 /dev/snd/pcmC0D3p
>
> The permissions are wrong, unless you run mplayer
> as root, which is wrong :)
Actually, I am running it as root (using sudo). I wanted to use the hardware
RTC timing. I know there are other ways of achieving this, but this was the
quickest.
>
> chown the device to root.audio, put yourself
> in the audio group, login to a fresh shell
> (you might have to restart X) and enjoy :)
Would that really help much? With the permissions as they are 'others' have
both read and write permissions too, right? (So mplayer running as a
regular user should still be able to use the device...)
Thanks,
Reinier.
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