F10 on Asus N10J netbook

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 09:51:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:27:03PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> >
> > 4)  Permissions that are automatically set for /dev/snd/* prevent
> > users from using the sound devices.  I have been unable to find the
> > "proper" way to undo this travesty,
>
> A way to undo this "travesty" is to add a file in
> /etc/security/console.perms.d, say 90-my.perms, with permissions
> like you want them to see.  A format should be obvious if you will
> look at other files but see also 'man 5 console.perms' and
> 'rpm -qd pam' for a bigger picture. The location name indicates that
> this does have security implications but in a particular setup you
> may not care.
>
> > but a brute force solution works.
>
> To an extent.  Logging from a keyboard and logging out, I guess,
> will revert them to a state specified in existing files from
> /etc/security/ tree.
>
> > Pulseaudio is a travesty and abomination.
>
> That sounds a bit too overgeneralized; but did you bother to look at
> 'man pulseaudio'?  Among other things it explains how to run it as a
> system-wide daemon instead of an instance for every user and what
> are tradeoffs.  I tend to agree that this is not that well thought
> off and geared to "windoze user" even if that user happens to run
> something else.
>
>    Michal
>  I use Linux since RH9 aka Shrike and still can't stand pulseaudio.
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