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From: Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:30:46
Message-Id: 200703222224.56713.schroder@ntplx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound? by Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
1 On Thursday 22 March 2007, a tiny voice compelled Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman to
2 write:
3 > Ernie Schroder wrote:
4 > > OR a permission problem
5 >
6 > Then use "id". Check out to which groups the "ernie" user belongs to. Then
7 > check out with ls -l /dev/any/sound/device and see what happens.
8 >
9 > Usually users should be in the "audio" group.
10 >
11 > --
12 > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad
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16
17 $ ls -al /dev/sound/
18 total 0
19 drwxrwxrwx 2 root wheel 160 Mar 21 02:09 .
20 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 13660 Mar 22 19:19 ..
21 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 12 Mar 21 02:09 adsp
22 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Mar 21 02:09 audio
23 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 21 02:09 dsp
24 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 21 02:09 mixer
25 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 1 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer
26 crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 8 Mar 21 02:09 sequencer2
27 ernie@MRK ~ $ ls -l /dev/dsp
28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 02:09 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp
29 ernie@MRK ~ $ id
30 uid=1000(ernie) gid=100(users) groups=10(wheel),12(mail),16(cron),18(audio),35
31 (games),100(users),250(portage),440(scanner),500(webmaster)
32
33
34 I'm confused. As you can see I've been playing with permissions and haven't
35 cleaned everything up BUT, I can't see why user "ernie" can't play audio
36 in .swf files. It looks to me that firefox isn't looking in the right places
37 for the plug-in.
38 --
39 Regards, Ernie
40 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] flash sound? Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net>