[PlanetCCRMA] firewire woes (again)

S C Rigler riglersc at gmail.com
Sat Mar 20 11:43:14 PDT 2010


The "users/groups" application probably just isn't showing groups with
a GID of under 500.  Go to Edit -> Preferences and deselect "hide
system users and groups".  Or you could just edit the /etc/group file,
but just do whatever you're comfortable with.  Be sure to logout and
back in afterward.

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Oded Ben-Tal <oded at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> It seems that the permission settings might be the problem.
> I can run jack as root and access the firewire card.
> The device is set for group == audio
> crw-rw----. 1 root audio 171, 0 2010-03-20 16:01 /dev/raw1394
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/69-raw1394.rules:KERNEL=="raw1394*", GROUP="audio"
>
> perhaps somehow I need to add me to the group? I tried to look for this
> group under the add user/groups application but didn't see anything there.
> Do I need to create a group called audio and add myself to it? Or is it more
> delicate than that?
>
> thanks
> Oded
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