Re: kmix doesn't show anything

[Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:53:58AM +0100, mailing wrote:
> Joel Alexandre wrote:
> 
> > hi, i've just installed my sound card(ac97) with kudzo.
> > as root there are no problems, but as a user i couldn't access 
> > /dev/dsp. so
> > i changed the permissions of /dev/dsp and now it works. The problem is 
> > that the sound is too low and i can't use kmix to change the volume. i 
> > just open it but it doesn't show anything. maybe it's some permission 
> > problems, but i don't know what to change. As root kmix works perfectly.
> > could someone help. thanks
> > Joel Alexandre 
> 
> Change the permissions of  /dev/mixer

Or do it as Debian suggest and add the user to the group audio

	addgroup audio <your-user-name>

Then access is no problem:

lapach(0) ~ > l /dev/mixer /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jan 24  2002 /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Jan 24  2002 /dev/mixer

Achim
> 
> harobed
> 
> 
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