Fedora 7 Audio

[Jamon Camisso]

Robin Humble wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:01:12AM -0400, Merv Curley wrote:
>> I just created a new user on this install and he has no permissions for audio.  
>> I was surprised to see no audio group so wonder if Fedora have some other way 
>> of doing things?
> 
> logged in local users (gui or virtual console, not remote)
> automatically have permission to use audio devices. hasn't it always
> been that way in fedora/redhat?
> 
> actually to be precise, probably one user has permissions at a time.
> there's some new fangled 'fast user switching' in fedora now that I
> haven't tried at all, but presumably it lets you have 2 desktop up for
> different users and audio permissions must toggle back and forward as
> you switch users.
> 
> on the occasions I want to use audio remotely I
>   chmod 666 /dev/snd/*
> which satisfies any modern (ALSA) app.
> if there are OSS-only programs then /dev/{mixer,dsp,audio} might be
> enough.
> network audio server is also in f7. I haven't investigated how/why it
> operates. if you figure it out then please let me know.
> 
>> One message from a Google search said to add the user to the audio group, but 
>> didn't suggest creating one.  Root and the first user created during the 
>> install do have working audio without the group.
> 
> you can do anything traditionally unix that you want to.
> if you want the changes to stick then you'll likely have to play with 
>   /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms
> and other /etc/security/ settings too.
> 
>> Incidentally I am not impressed with Fedora 7 install,  upgrading from FC-6 is 
> 
> don't use it then :)
> 
> f7 works well on this dell 1210 laptop - I installed it from the Live
> dvd which is prob a good way to see if it looks like it's going to know
> about your hardware...  compiz is fun. ooffice is 64bit. actually for
> kicks I did a 'yum remove glibc.i686' which removed every i386 app, so
> until I need a realplay or to watch youtube it's a pure 64bit fedora for
> a change.

"nspluginwrapper is an Open Source compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 
(NPAPI) plugins. That is, it enables you to use plugins on platforms 
they were not built for. For example, you can use the Adobe Flash plugin 
on Linux/x86_64, NetBSD and FreeBSD platforms."

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper

Two rpms to install, then nspluginwrapper -i libflashplayer.so and 
you're good to go. Flash is no reason to compromise on your 64bit system :)

Jamon
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