Re: sound problems

[Timeboy <timohart@gmx.at>]

On Monday Sep 17 14:28 Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
 
> ** 1.) How do I make them work using the normal account? I believe it's in the file permissions, but what exactly do I need to modify? do i need to suid root any of those programs?

Do as root:

# addgroup <username> audio

This will put the user <username> to the group audio, so the user <username>
will have permissions to all audio devices.

> ** 2.) It's not recommended to edit directly the /etc/modules.conf file in Debian, so how do i configure and load the sb module during startup?

I reccomend you to use modprobe.

# dpkg -s modconf
Package: modconf
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: base

Timo

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