sound issue on openSUSE 11.0 Acer Asprire one

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:35, Ruediger Dohmhardt
<ruediger.dohmhardt at freenet.de> wrote:
> Paul Menzel schrieb:
>> Am Sonntag, den 08.02.2009, 10:54 +0100 schrieb Dieter Jurzitza:
>>
>>> I have openSUSE 11.0 running on an Acer Aspire one. Everything works like a
>>> charm - except the sound output for users.
>>>
>>> I am forced to add my regular user to the group "audio" in order to get sound
>>> working for non-root.
>>
>> That is also necessary on a Debian installation. I thought this is
>> normal behaviour?
>>
> Hi Dieter,
> my experience is that as long as I use the Suse-kernel, non-root users
> need NOT to be group members of "audio".
>
> Once I start using my own kernel, I have to add all users to the group
> "audio" in order to have sound working.
>
> My impression is that the Suse-kernel is patched with respect to
> "permissions", perhaps for security issues (just guessing).

No, there is nothing special. You likely just miss: CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y.

Kay