Permissions / Re: kde Digest, Vol 39, Issue 14

[Rick Miles]

Lorenzo,

In konqueror, right click on any file or directory. Go to the bottom of the 
selection list to "Properties" and you will be able to change ownership and 
permissions of anything that you have permission to. If you're logged in as 
root that will be everything/one that can be changed. 

In Properties -> Ownership go to "Advanced Permissions" and it may be a bit 
clearer what your doing.

Outside of KDE or in konsole use the commands "chmod" and "chown" to change 
permissions and ownership respectively I use these just as much as via 
konqueror. Type "man chown" and "man chmod" in konsole to get the manual 
pages. For a newbie man pages might be a bit challenging but once you get 
used to them they are a handy reference....and there is also google

BTW, Digests may be a handy/cpncise way to receive posts from a forum but 
replying to something in that digest has sent the the complete digest back to 
the list. Luckily there was only one thread on the list but if there had been 
10 threads with, say, 5 posts each you would have rereplied back with your 
question plus 50 other posts in 10 threads. There must be a better way to 
reply to one post/thread.

Lorenzo La Spada is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> Hi,
> thanks a lot for reply.
>
> > Do you have alsa support in you kernel?
> > Also, is alsasound running?
>
> I'm not sure if I have Alsa support. I don't know how to check that.
> I thought the the fink installation would provide all the required
> support to enable sound.
> How do I check for that?
>
> > I see this mesage on new installs of slackware and if you have the
> > same
> > problem it's easy to fix.
> >
> > Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. It may be that you will have to
> > change your
> > permissions to give users access. /dev/dsp is actually a symlinc
> > to /dev/sound so you'll need to change that permission too.
>
> I must say that I am not familliar with all this, I a new unix user.
> Could you please tell me how do I check and change the permissions?
> Should I have a file named dsp? I found a lot of stuff in the /dev
> directory but no dsp, sound or symlinc files.
>
> I'm sorry to ask naive questions, could you tell me more on how to
> proceed?
>
> Thank you
>
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:23:13 +0200
> > From: "A.J. Venter" <aj at getopenlab.com>
> > Subject: Re: [kde] No sound at all with kde
> > To: kde at mail.kde.org
> > Message-ID: <200606132023.13979.aj at getopenlab.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:07, Rick Miles wrote:
> >> I see this mesage on new installs of slackware and if you have the
> >> same
> >> problem it's easy to fix.
> >>
> >> Check the permissions on /dev/dsp. It may be that you will have to
> >> change
> >> your permissions to give users access. /dev/dsp is actually a symlinc
> >> to /dev/sound so you'll need to change that permission too.
> >
> > I'm dealing with something similiar, but something is odd here,
> > firstly it
> > happens only on some cards, and not all the time either.
> > And of course since /dev/sound is a DIRECTORY and /dev/dsp is meant
> > to be a
> > file... isn't THAT the problem ?
> > Shouldn't udev configs be modified so it's symlinked to /dev/sound/dsp
> > instead ?

-- 
Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

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