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From: Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Skype doesn't work as user
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:56:33
Message-Id: 20051120105459.GA17881@crud.crud.mn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Skype doesn't work as user by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> skribis:
2 > The problem could also be one of permissions, if your user isn't in
3 > the audio group, or the devices have non-standard permissions or
4 > ownership.
5
6 That reminds me of something.
7
8 A long time ago, I put the following in a
9 file/etc/udev/rules.d/30-local.rules after a udev upgrade broke my
10 sound:
11
12 # alsa devices
13 KERNEL="controlC0", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
14 KERNEL="pcmC0D0c", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
15 KERNEL="pcmC0D0p", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
16 KERNEL="pcmC0D1c", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
17 KERNEL="pcmC0D1p", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
18 KERNEL="seq", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
19 KERNEL="timer", NAME="snd/%k", SYMLINK="%k", GROUP="audio"
20
21 The person having trouble could try that. Another thing to try is
22 'killall artsd' and then see what happens.
23
24 --
25 Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org http://www.chemoelectric.org
26 Esperantistoj rajtas skribi al Barijo.SXVARCO@×××××××××××××.org
27 'And now we're going to go try to comfort people in that
28 part of the world.' -- Bush, referring to the southeastern U.S.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Skype doesn't work as user Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>