[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Regular user unable to use sound/alsa after upgrade

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:52:58PM -0500, covici@××××××××××.com wrote
>
> I would check the permissions of /dev/dsp and /dev/snd maybe they should
> be world rw or something. The /var/tmp is just what the source directory
> is, don't worry about that.

  No /dev/dsp on my system.  As for /dev/snd

[d531][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     160 Jan 28 21:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    3400 Jan 29 02:50 ..
crw-rw----  1 root root 116,  2 Jan 28 21:50 controlC0
crw-rw----  1 root root 116,  4 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----  1 root root 116,  3 Jan 29 12:24 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----  1 root root 116,  5 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----  1 root root 116,  1 Jan 28 21:50 seq
crw-rw----  1 root root 116, 33 Jan 28 21:50 timer

  I went in as root and changed the entire snd subdirectory to
root:users

[d531][waltdnes][~] ll /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root users     160 Jan 28 21:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root     3400 Jan 29 02:50 ..
crw-rw----  1 root users 116,  2 Jan 28 21:50 controlC0
crw-rw----  1 root users 116,  4 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----  1 root users 116,  3 Jan 29 13:05 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----  1 root users 116,  5 Jan 28 21:50 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----  1 root users 116,  1 Jan 28 21:50 seq
crw-rw----  1 root users 116, 33 Jan 28 21:50 timer

...and now sound works fine as regular user.  Thank you very much
for the solution.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications