Re: Sound if root only
On 16-Nov-2001 Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Running woody on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with kernel 2.4.14. The system uses a
> Maestro3 sound chip. Compiling kernel 2.4.14, the Maestro3 driver shows up
> marked as experimental under xconfig but it is grayed out and non-selectable.
> So far as I could tell, it isn't dependent upon another option. Under
> menuconfig, the Maestro3 doesn't show up at all. I manually edited .config
> and enabled the Maestro3 driver. The kernel compiled fine, and I have sound
> under X if I'm logged in as root. If I log in under my normal user account,
> I have no sound. My first thought is a permissions issue, but I'm not sure
> which files might cause this. Thanks in advance for any thoughts or
> suggestions.
>
add the user to the group 'audio'. The files in /dev are audio, dsp, and
mixer. They should be 660 root:audio.
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