Re: Help needed starting audio

[Stuart Luscombe <stuart@ubersecksie.co.uk>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:17:23AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:18:18PM +0000, Stuart Luscombe wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 08:18:43AM -0400, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
> > > Users and groups are different. /etc/group lists your groups.
> > > 
> > > As user, type `groups`
> > > You will get the names of any groups the user belongs to.
> > 
> > I added the user into audio, this had no effect,
> 
> You'll need to log out and log back in (or use the 'newgrp' program, but
> that only affects your current shell) before adding yourself to a
> different group takes effect.
> 
> > so I then tried adding user into root (not secure I know), but this
> > still has not worked.
> 
> The root group is different from the root user. Yes, this is a little
> confusing.

I spoke to a mate of mine and he suggested doing chmod 777 /dev/(audio/dsp/mixer), which I did, it now works OK ;)

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Stuart

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