Re: package searching & soundcard issues

[Nicolas Bertolissio <nico.bertol@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 12:55:02 Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> hello,

Hi
 
> question 2:
> on my debian installation, root seems to be the only user who can access
> the soundcard (with xmms, etc.).  if i'm not mistaken, the souncard is
> /dev/dsp. on my machine this is:
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jul  5  2000 /dev/dsp
> 
> i tried doing an `addgroup mark audio', but i still get `Permission
> denied' when i try `cat /dev/dsp'.  can anyone give me a hand?  thanks.

according to man addgroup :
- addgroup seems to create a new group, doesn't add a user to an existing group. 
- To add an existing user to an existing group : `adduser <user> <group>'.

An other solution is : edit your /etc/group and add the user in the line audio:x:29:<user>
                                                                                 ^^
                                                                                 audio group number
Nicolas Bertolissio