Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:09:54 -0400 From: nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com> To: Lawrence Petrykanyn <lawrence.petrykanyn@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sound as Root, No Sound as User Message-ID: <42DBF072.4020503@nawcom.no-ip.com> In-Reply-To: <42DBEC8A.7040607@sympatico.ca> References: <42DBEC8A.7040607@sympatico.ca>
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do a chmod 666 /dev/acd0 (chmod a+rw). freebsd doesnt give a user the needed rights by default. That permission change should fix it. -Ben Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie, but managed to get my sound working as root, but not > when I use a user account. The CD Player in Gnome works fine if I log > in as root, but when I log on as a user, it says that there is a > "drive error", but if I su into root and "cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 play > 1" I can play a CD. I'm assuming that this is a permission issue but > can't find any mention of it in either the Handbook or the Internet. > The user account is in the wheel group. > I am running FreeBSD 5.4. Any suggestions, comments or advice > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lawrence > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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