On Sunday 11 August 2002 12:34, Daryl Johnson wrote:
>On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48, you wrote:
>
>An addendum to my sound card problems of 6 weeks ago.
>
>I have sound using OSS but not ALSA, it's not uncommon to get sound server
>error messages when I forget and try and use a KDE sound app. Clearly artsd
>is missing the boat somewhere.
>
>As a rare occasion today I logged into a KDE screen as root (I know, I know
>but I had my reasons) and blow me down, the chord played on boot and sign
>off. I also used some KDE apps and got sound interaction.
>
>Clearly a permission problem somewhere but would anyone care to suggest where?
Are you running the /usr/bin/artswrapper suid-root? I'm sure there are many
who would frown heavily on doing this, but I run it suid (mode 4755), and have
had much better sound quality as a result. If you use msec, you will have to
put an entry for the change in /etc/security/msec/perm.local:
# /etc/security/msec/perm.local
# Local file permission settings to override msec.
# [file] [uid.gid] [perms]
#
/usr/bin/artswrapper root.root 4755
the artswrapper is what launches the artsd sound-server at kde startup,
and allows artsd to get (near) real-time-scheduling priority.
-Chuck
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