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 mark audio' doesn't add user 'mark' in group 'audio'
`adduser mark audio' does

another solution :
edit your /etc/group at the line 'audio:x:29:'

Nicolas Bertolissio