Incoming from Michael Walters: > > I did as S. Keeling suggested and it worked! I mounted the floppy as Dale, and > went into Konquerer and view the two jpg files on the floppy and they came up > beautifully.
And you've just learned a powerful lesson. How do you get something to work in Linux? Find out what that something is owned by, and add your user ID to that group. (0) keeling /home/keeling_ ls -l /dev/fd0* brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Feb 8 2002 /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 84 Feb 8 2002 /dev/fd0u1040 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 88 Feb 8 2002 /dev/fd0u1120 brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 Feb 8 2002 /dev/fd0u1440 ... (0) keeling /home/keeling_ ls -l /dev/mixer* /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Dec 10 2001 /dev/audio crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 20 Dec 10 2001 /dev/audio1 ... Add your user ID to group audio, and you should no longer have any problem with sound apps. Some things do defy this logic; you don't want to add yourself to group root, daemon, bin, sys, & etc. Those ones are too dangerous. But dialout, cdrom, floppy, audio, dip, and users should all be fairly safe. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
