RE: workman and sound
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
>
> >
> > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote:
> > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I
> > > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to
> > > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like
> > > workman without making it world writable and without having to do group
> > > calisthenics.
> >
> > The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio group.
> > You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem.
It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping
/dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom....
Matthew
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