Re: Help needed starting audio
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:17:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:53:41PM +0000, Stuart Luscombe wrote:
> > 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:
> > > > 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 ;)
>
> Ugh ... what were the permissions on those devices beforehand?
No idea....
--
Stuart
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