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Subject: Re: ibook 600 mhz sound only on root account
From: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel () gimpelevich ! san-francisco ! ca ! us>
Date: 2005-01-28 19:29:49
Message-ID: pan.2005.01.28.19.29.45.652764 () gimpelevich ! san-francisco ! ca ! us
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I believe Norberto is referring to the permissions of the audio entries in
the /dev directory. As for RealPlayer and Flash, it sounds like you
installed them in root's home directory. The solution is to install in a
directory anybody can see. If you installed from the RPMs, this wouldn't
be a problem.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:52:04 -0800, Javier Montoya wrote:
>
> --- Javier Montoya <> wrote:
>
> > Running yum updates worked to fix my sound on my ibook 600, but only
>
> > for my root account. I went into the control center and made the audio
>
> > setting the same via gui and I still get the error SND error. I was
>
> > also wondering how I could make realplayer and flash installs on my
>
> > root account to be global on the box and not just for the root user.
>
> > It makes no sense to have to install the same stuff over and over
>
> > again on each user account right!
>
>
>
> <http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/permissions.shtml>
>
> Hey Norberto...the link was informative( i already know about file permissions \
> though) but are you suggesting that I set permissions on the dsp module or \
> permissions on the realplayer module. I guess the confusion is my fault for asking \
> two questions at once. At any rate; if I install a flash plugin...,the plugin is in \
> the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory and I don't see how permissions would help me an \
> any way unless I symlink to it and do a bunch of other laborious stuff or is that \
> the way it should be done?
> If you were talking about the sound module then that makes more sense to me. I \
> don't need to be led by the hand the full way but just linking to a file \
> permissions page offers ambiguous answers.
>
>
>
>
> <DIV><FONT size=2>
> <P>--- Javier Montoya <> wrote:</P>
> <P>> Running yum updates worked to fix my sound on my ibook 600, but only </P>
> <P>> for my root account. I went into the control center and made the audio </P>
> <P>> setting the same via gui and I still get the error SND error. I was </P>
> <P>> also wondering how I could make realplayer and flash installs on my </P>
> <P>> root account to be global on the box and not just for the root user. </P>
> <P>> It makes no sense to have to install the same stuff over and over </P>
> <P>> again on each user account right!</P>
> <P> </P>
> <P><</FONT><A href="http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/permissions.shtml"><U><FONT \
> color=#0000ff size=2>http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/permissions.shtml</U></FONT></A><FONT \
> size=2>></P> <P>Hey Norberto...the link was informative( i already know about \
> file permissions though) but are you suggesting that I set permissions on \
> the dsp module or permissions on the realplayer module. I guess the confusion is my \
> fault for asking two questions at once. At any rate; if I install a flash \
> plugin...,the plugin is in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory and I don't see how \
> permissions would help me an any way unless I symlink to it and do a bunch of \
> other laborious stuff or is that the way it should be done? </P> <P>If you were \
> talking about the sound module then that makes more sense to me. I don't need \
> to be led by the hand the full way but just linking to a file permissions page \
> offers ambiguous answers. </P> <P></P>
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