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(a)isbd.net> 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