Remote Control of Volume
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:44:54 -0400, J. B. Wood staggered into the Black Sun and said:
No problem, just make sure the permissions on the device files used to play sounds are set properly. I think they're using udev on Fedora now, so that's everything underdev-soundanddev-snd. In many cases, these devices are 0660 and owned by root:audio, so everybody who wants to play sounds needs to be in the audio group.
Is Fedora doing something dumb wrt device ownership? Often, whoever's logged in to the local console gets ownership of many devices. If nobody's logged in to the local console, these devices should be root:somegroup , but it's difficult to know what's really going on without being able to ls -l. Fortunately, you can ssh in to this machine and check.
I used to have all the usual newbie problems with not being able to unmount a CD or flash memory, but finally learned not...
Device permissions, probably. Check those first.
Thanks, I posted this stuff below. Sounds alot more intersting than windows. Anyway, I tried PCLinuxOS from a live CD. It was able to access the...
The problem is almost certainly at a lower layer than xmms or any GUI app.
Force the audio device nodes to 0660 , root:audio , make sure all users who need to use sound are in group audio, and see what happens. You need to change rules underetc-udevif udev's being used for changes to persist. HTH,
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