Re: volume control

[Michael Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>]

On 28 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:

> I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is
> to:
> 
> chmod 660 /dev/mixer*
> chown root.audio /dev/mixer*
> 
> and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio
> group. A lot of the things devices in /dev work this way.
> 

	I don't have to do a newgrp to be a member of that group, do I?

lupus:~# chmod 660 /dev/mixer
lupus:~# ll /dev/mix*
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Sep  8  1999 /dev/mixer
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,  16 Sep  8  1999 /dev/mixer1

lupus:/etc# groups msoulier
msoulier : msoulier
lupus:/etc# adduser msoulier audio
Adding user msoulier to group audio...
Done.
lupus:/etc# groups msoulier
msoulier : msoulier audio

	But now it doesn't work. 

	However, if I manually change groups...

[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ groups      
msoulier
[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ groups msoulier
msoulier : msoulier audio
[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ newgrp audio
[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ groups
audio msoulier
[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ xmms &

	It works fine. Do I have to do a newgrp every time? That's kind of
annoying. 

	Mike

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