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

[Alan McKinnon]

On 29/01/2015 20:11, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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.


Check your udev rules. Those nodes will probably revert back to
root:root on each reboot




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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com