[Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis

[Philip Scott]

Heyho

You can't (As far as I am aware) grant yourself access to the entire pci bus 
in one fell swoop, you can however, grant users or groups access to specific 
devices using chmod or chown.

Hello There!

I _girl_! On the LUG? My word, the news is spreading! :)

If you only need it to work for one user (lets call him jimbob), the easiest 
way is to make yourself the owner of the device you want to access. It 
depends what your modem is called, but 

chown jimbob /dev/modem

Should work. If it doesn't, look at what /dev/modem points to:

ls -l /dev|grep modem

e.g. with an intel HaM modem, I see it points to /dev/dsp so 

chown jimbob /dev/ham

works nicely.

As for sound, if your using OSS,
chown jimbob /dev/dsp
chown jimbob /dev/mixer

should do the trick - with alsa, try
chown jimbob /dev/sound/*

Of course, the proper way to do things would be to set up a group for all the 
people you want to be able to access specific devices - chgrp the devices to 
that particular group and chmod g+rwx /dev/whatever to give members of that 
group full access to it.

hope this helps,

Regards,
	Philip