Re: Access to the Audiodevice as user
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:55:58PM -0000, Hanno B?ttcher wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I
> deleted the messages allready.
> How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one
> explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and checked
> the permissions of /dev/audio but it doesn't work. I'm testing it with
> mp3blaster and it allways says "Can not open Audio Device". If I try as root
> it works, so the audio device itself is up.
Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to
take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid
this, but I don't know what it is.
--
Jeremiah
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