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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Skype doesn't work as user
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:31:57
Message-Id: pan.2005.11.20.13.26.44.390242@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Skype doesn't work as user by Barry.SCHWARTZ@chemoelectric.org
1 Barry.SCHWARTZ posted <20051120105459.GA17881@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted
2 below, on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:54:59 -0600:
3
4 > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> skribis:
5 >> The problem could also be one of permissions, if your user isn't in
6 >> the audio group, or the devices have non-standard permissions or
7 >> ownership.
8 >
9 > That reminds me of something.
10 >
11 > A long time ago, I put the following in a
12 > file/etc/udev/rules.d/30-local.rules after a udev upgrade broke my
13 > sound:
14 >
15 > # alsa devices
16 > KERNEL="controlC0", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
17 > KERNEL="pcmC0D0c", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
18 > KERNEL="pcmC0D0p", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
19 > KERNEL="pcmC0D1c", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
20 > KERNEL="pcmC0D1p", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
21 > KERNEL="seq", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
22 > KERNEL="timer", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
23
24 Hmm...
25
26 grep -B2 snd /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
27 # alsa devices
28 SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio"
29 KERNEL=="controlC[0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k"
30 KERNEL=="hw[CD0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k"
31 KERNEL=="pcm[CD0-9cp]*", NAME="snd/%k"
32 KERNEL=="midiC[D0-9]*", NAME="snd/%k"
33 KERNEL=="timer", NAME="snd/%k"
34 KERNEL=="seq", NAME="snd/%k"
35
36
37 So... basically what you did is add the main /dev dir symlinks...
38 Interesting...
39
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