[ltp] No Sound at all...

[Buchan Milne]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Richard Neill wrote:

> P.S. I found that Mdk 8.2 does some slightly weird things with sound.
> Looking at the notes I made when I installed it (and which I really must
> webify), I found the following.
>
> sound - xmms works fine but sometimes need to be root. (use the OSS driver).
> midi - kmidi etc works only as root.
>
> need to do:
> ln -s /dev/sound/midi00 /dev/sound/midi
> chmod a+rw /dev/sound/*
>

Probably needs some hacking of the devfsd and pam_console stuff.
Unfortunately, bug reports on 8.2 won't help, if you have 9.0 handy, that
might be good enough (AFAIK, not that much devfs stuff has changed in
cooker).

Buchan

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