Re: Problem loading sound driver in user accounts
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> I have installed support for my Soundblaster card and it works
> fine (kernel module).
That's good, so far so good.
> I like to install the driver on the different user accounts through
> the X init files. The command is: "modprobe -a sound". This works
> fine when I am root. And also on user accounts if I change the
> permission for the sound driver file (sound.o) as root, but only
> until I reboot. After I have rebooted and try to load the driver
> after having logged in as a normal user I get the message that I do
> not have permission to load the module sound.o . I have to go the
> way though root to get it loaded after a reboot.
Interesting, I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, perhaps someone
who knows more about Linux would be able to help you with why this is
happening...
> I would really like to be able to load the driver for users that
> want sound through their X initialization, but I am not able to figure
> out how.
I would recommend placing the module in /etc/modules. It's pretty easy to
do this manually, however. If (as root) you run the program 'modconf'
you'll be able to set it up to install the sound modules with a snazzy
front-end program :) I use it myself after I modify my kernel (just to
check to make sure that I have all my modules still there, and other
things like that :) ).
Hope this helps,
Peter Ludwig
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