Hi, I just upgraded from the stock kde (woody) to kde 3.1.1 from kde.org. Things went pretty smoothly. There's one hitch however. Right now, ordinary users aren't able to access /dev/dsp so they get no sound.
The "right" way to resolve this is using /etc/pam.d/kdm and /etc/security/group.conf. In /etc/pam.d/kdm I added the line: auth optional pam_group.so in /etc/security/group.conf I added the line: kdm;*;*;Al0000-2400;audio This setup actually works. When a user logs in they are temporarily added to the audio group and sound works. My problem is with the second field which represents the tty that the user is logged in under. For kdm from the console this is ":0". If I use this for the tty field instead of the wildcard "*", users don't get added to the audio group and there's no sound. I tried escaping the colon, e.g. \:0, but that actually causes a complete failure to login using kdm. I tried both "*:0" and ":0*" Thinking there might be leading or trailing whitespace in the tty name, neither worked. I don't like using the wildcard because I don't want remote users dumping sound to the audio device. I wish I had looked at this stuff BEFORE I upgraded to 3.1.1 since the 2.2 audio was working and I assume it used the same method. If someone is still running 2.2 or has this working in 3.1.1 could you let me know how this stuff is accomplished? Thanks, Albert -- Albert Schueller Department of Mathematics Office Phone: 509-527-5140 Whitman College Public Key: http://carrot.whitman.edu/gpg.key Walla Walla, WA USA 99362
