Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:18:55 -0500 From: "Craig Reyenga" <creyenga@connectmail.carleton.ca> To: "Anand Buddhdev" <arb@anand.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: playing CDs as non-root user Message-ID: <001201c2c5b2$d34c51c0$0200000a@sewer.org> References: <20030127030941.GU9710@anand.org>
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> I've got my FreeBSD system setup with KDE and sound. I have 2 questions: > > 1. I got sound to work simply by doing "kldload snd" but then I did > kldstat and saw that all available sound modules had been loaded. I > thought that was unnecessary - is there any way (besides inserting > each module one at a time) that I can determine which exact module is > providing the driver for my sound card? > Try typing 'dmesg | grep pcm0' and see what shows up. You should then be able to narrow it down. Do note that some are common between (almost?) all cards, such as snd_pcm.ko. > 2. I can play a music CD just fine as root, using cdcontrol, as described > in the handbook. But under KDE, running as a non-root user, I cannot > play music CDs. I looked at the permissions on /dev/acd0c, and they are > 0640, root.operator, so an ordinary user cannot read the CD. I changed > the permissions to 0644, and I could play the CD. However, there must > be a good reason for the permisisons to be 0640, and I don't want to > mess up the permissions just to get the CD player to work. What is the > "official" way to get this to work? The handbook didn't mention it. > That's probably the best way to do it, believe it or not. To have it work on bootup in 5.X, try editing /etc/rc.devfs (I think), or in 4.X try editing /etc/rc.local to say "chmod 644 /dev/acd0c" (I think). It may not require anything after doing it once in 4.X. -Craig P.S. Sorry if this is out to lunch. > -- > Anand Buddhdev > http://anand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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