On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:20:39PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I've been setting up my sound, and I still don't have everything up and > running yet. I've noticed that the sound effects for Enlightenment won't > start until esd (Enlightenment sound daemon) is running, and I can only > start that as root. Is this because /dev/audio (and therefore esd) is only > accessible by root?
As root: $ adduser <username> audio > I've had a suggestion to use groups to provide access to devices. Is this > the standard (and "safe") way to handle using sound for mutiple users while > using X? It doesn't seem that this is a common problem, so I feel I'm > missing something. > > Also, I wanted to test listening to a CD, but somehow I can no longer > access CDs. The Debian install created /cdrom (I assume this is instead of > /mnt/cdrom) and there is no /dev/cdrom to mount in the first place. It says: > > mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to the real device. Just create it like: $ ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom You'll need to figure out which device is really your cdrom. But there aren't too many if it's IDE (/dev/hd[a-d] usually). And, yes, Debian uses /cdrom and /floppy instead of /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy. You can change that if you like by creating two directories under /mnt and then updating /etc/fstab accordingly. Some Debian packages may expect the default, but I can't think of any... > My CD worked perfectly in a previous installation. I now am using a > week-old net-install of potato. -- SIGUSR1
