Re: Sound problem

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:20PM +0100, Gian Piero Ascenso wrote: 

>    I started Debian 2.2 a few weeks ago. Recently I've been able to configure
> my YAMAHA sound chip with the opl3sa2 driver, but I'm baffled by a problem:
> I can drive the CD and gmix (Gnome mixer) only if I log in as root. When I
> log in as normal user I can drive the CD with gcd but I can't here anything.
> If I try to start gmix it tells me "no mixer found - make sure you have
> sound support compiled in the kernel", which I find absurd, since as root
> everything works fine. I suspect I need to grant some permission or to add
> my user login to some group. Has anyone some idea about where I should
> look at? I use WindowMaker as window manager.

I am not sure but you could try adding you user the the group "audio"
(/etc/group)

Phil