Re: [SOLVED] F8t3 k3b and sound problems

[Harald Hoyer <harald redhat com>]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:22:24 -0500
> Mike Chambers <mike miketc com> wrote:
>
> > Welp, turning on Consolekit and a quick reboot and BOTH k3b and my
> > sound now seem to work.  So this *has* to be on for those type devices
> > (removable and so on?) to work?
>
> ConsoleKit and PolicyKit work together to assign ACLs to the devices
> for the active console user.  If it isn't running, the ACLs won't be
> applied and you won't have access to use them.

Think of them as the pam_console replacement.