William L. Maltby wrote:
CD is playing alright. Volume Control Panel mute, volume, balance all work. In *my* original thread (not the one from ech - Jim?), I couldn't even open the Volume Cont... crap that's too long - VCP ;-) (you know who you are!)
I'm not sure it's a bug though, it may be a feature(tm) (the changing of permissions on devices). I don't think it should work that way.
I checked my Debian Etch desktop at home for any devices that were owned by my userid and the only ones that came up were terminal devices(/dev/pts/ stuff), which is normal if your logged in. It appears Debian hasn't adopted the stuff that changes the ownership of /dev devices and instead relies upon group access rights(what I think is the right way to do it). So any user in the audio group for example has a right to play audio. I don't have any RHEL or CentOS desktops, I have a Fedora 8 desktop in VMWare ESX but it doesn't appear to provide a virtual sound device so I can't check anything there either. My servers get a minimal version of gnome, not enough to login to a desktop with but enough to run some gnome or gtk related apps over a SSH tunnel.
- When the using application(s) are terminated, the devices ownership
should be returned to root, as with tty devices, or back to the desktop user (if that user ever owned them *before* the devices were used - which they weren't in this case) allowing later allocation to another user again and making them also available for the desktop user.
While this may be possible I can imagine the logic getting confusing if there are multiple people that are logged in.
The Q now is will changing ownership of these affect the volumeslider? Shouldn't? First one is an LSB shared object, second one is data.
No neither of these should impact volume. What impacts volumes with regards to flash is if the plugin is actually loaded(which requires going to a page that has a flash object), and actually plays some audio. Before that happens nothing with the audio subsystem is touched as far as I know..
Before I write a bug report (after seeing that one doesn't exist), anything else you think I could look for or try?
Not off the top of my head.. I guess last words would be don't be surprised if it doesn't get fixed(short of getting off the scheme of changing ownership of dev devices entirely for things like audio), which I don't think(hope) would happen until a major OS rev is issued.
nate