trplayer and audio permissions

[Charles Hallenbeck]

My system is also Slackware 8.0, but I have installed the latest alsa
drivers and have run the script 'snddevices' from that package I am not
sure what devices RealPlayer8 is trying to use either. We need someone
who knows what they are doing to educate us!!!

Chuck
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Out of the box (slackware 8.0) audio, audio1, dsp and dsp1 appear to be
> separate devices and default permissions had no privs for global others
> and they are in the sys group along with some other audio sounding devices
> like mixer and mixer1 and some midi devices. With this default
> arrangement, no audio programs would work from normal user. At least then
> I wqould get a message to the fact from programs like play and mpg123.
> Realplayer, however doesn't give any messages - just plays silently. I now
> have set rw for other for audio, audio1, dsp, and dsp1 but still silence
> from realplayer in a normal user. Root plays fine. About the only option I
> can see might be to add normal users to the sys group and give that a try.
> I don't know what devices realplayer / trplayer is trying to access or why
> normal users get the silent treatment.
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > I am having no difficulty with my audio output arrangement here, and have
> > done nothing to create or modify any groups for my sound devices.
> >
> > On my system, /dev/dsp and /dev/audio are symbolic links with 777
> > permissions; they are linked to /dev/dsp1 and /dev/audio1 which have 666
> > permissions.
> >
> > Maybe those are not i;mportant details, but then again perhaps they are.
> >
> > Ch;uck
> >
> >
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