devices

devices

[jim grimsby]

Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work
unless I am a logged in as root.  To correct this problem I gave the other
group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this 
Chgrp jim /dev/dsp 
Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else.  
Thanks.  

Re: devices

[David Bruzos]

The best way to do it is to add your users to the correct system group that owns the devices.  I think that Debian has a 
group called "audio" and one called "video".  However, I don't use Debian so I am just speculating.  I use FC and this is 
not a problem for me, because the default user-configuration allows for audio access without beeing part of any group.  I 
like the "audio" group thing, it is cool and reasonable.

Anyway, it helps if you specify in your message what distro you are using.  Something like: I use Debian.


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:41:57AM -0800, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work
> unless I am a logged in as root.  To correct this problem I gave the other
> group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this 
> Chgrp jim /dev/dsp 
> Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else.  
> Thanks.  
> 
> 
> 
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Re: devices

[Farhan]

just as a side note. i do like debian better then fedora. except for one 
thing., the x config. thats a pain cause i don't want my monitor to turn in 
to a grill in front of me.... can someone yell at me and tell me how they 
got debian working with x?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david@bruzos.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: devices


> The best way to do it is to add your users to the correct system group 
> that owns the devices.  I think that Debian has a
> group called "audio" and one called "video".  However, I don't use Debian 
> so I am just speculating.  I use FC and this is
> not a problem for me, because the default user-configuration allows for 
> audio access without beeing part of any group.  I
> like the "audio" group thing, it is cool and reasonable.
>
> Anyway, it helps if you specify in your message what distro you are using. 
> Something like: I use Debian.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:41:57AM -0800, jim grimsby wrote:
>> Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work
>> unless I am a logged in as root.  To correct this problem I gave the 
>> other
>> group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this
>> Chgrp jim /dev/dsp
>> Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: devices

[Sean McMahon]

You'll get permission denied errors on certain devices in /dev.  do ls -ld
/dev/<devicename> where <devicename> is some thing like dsp.  This will show if
this is a softlink or a real device.  If it is a softlink, you'll see ->
<anothername> where <anothername> is the real device.  Example /dev/cdrom on my
debian system points to  /dev/cdrom0 which looked like cdrom > cdrom0 from
within the /dev directory.  I then did a ls -ld /dev/cdrom0 and discovered it
had the proper permissions in group cd.  Your audio device /dev/dsp probably has
permissions from group audio..  At that point, log in as root then add your self
to the group with the command adduser.  If your user is jim and you want to add
yourself to audio type
adduser jim audio
Logout then log back in.  If you sued into root, logout from both root and
yourself then log back in.  When you do the command groups, you should see the
new group next to your username.

hth
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jim grimsby" <jimgrims@pacbell.net>
To: "Speak Up Mailing List" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: devices


> Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work
> unless I am a logged in as root.  To correct this problem I gave the other
> group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this
> Chgrp jim /dev/dsp
> Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

RE: devices

[jim grimsby]

Hi, thanks that helped a lot it worked grait to.