Sometime between gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7-r7 and 2.6.7-r11, devices associated with audio no longer have thier ownership assigned to the user at login. This is on Udev systems with tarball set to no. Or udev based systems that were clean installed with kernels later than 2.6.7-r7 Problem verified with kernels - 2.6.7-r11, 2.6.8-r3, 2.6.9-r1. This has been reproduced on two platforms - a 2P Athlon-MP system and a Pentium-M based laptop. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.edit /etc/conf.d/rc. Change RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to - no. 2. Install gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-rx where x>7 3. Reboot 4. Log in as a normal user. ls -l /dev/snd Actual Results: rsanders@chi rsanders $ uname -av Linux chi 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Sat Oct 23 13:40:24 Local time zone must be set--see zic i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux rsanders@chi rsanders $ ls -l /dev/snd total 0 crw------- 1 root audio 116, 0 Oct 25 21:01 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Oct 25 21:01 midiC0D0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 Oct 25 21:01 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 Oct 25 21:01 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 17 Oct 25 21:01 pcmC0D1p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 18 Oct 25 21:01 pcmC0D2p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 19 Oct 25 21:01 pcmC0D3p crw------- 1 root audio 116, 1 Oct 25 21:01 seq crw------- 1 root audio 116, 33 Oct 25 21:01 timer Expected Results: owership for devices in /dev/snd should have been my user id, not root. I have not seen this problem on an amd64 workstation running gentoo-dev-souces 2.6.8-r4.
After configing a vanilla dev kernel, I find the problem is with the session manager. As I'm using Entrance, a non-released session manager, I've rejected this bug report. Apologies for the error. Bob
