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Re: permissions for audio device



On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 18:13, F. Heitkamp wrote:
> I am trying to use xmms or freeamp to play mp3s using Debian on PowerMac G4
> 533 MHZ dualie.   I can play the songs fine as root, but cannot play 
> them as a normal
> user.  What should the user/group/permissions be for the audio devices? 
>  Right now
> the devices are owned by root, and are c-rw-rw---.   This seems like it 
> should work
> as far as it goes, so I suspect a group problem.  Which group shoud I 
> use for a normal
> user?

normaly you only have to add the user to the audio group, if your dsp
device looks like :

scheffle@stella:~$ ls -al /dev/sound/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jan  1  1970 /dev/sound/dsp

arne



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