Re: soundcard use as non-root

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

High,

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, George Teodor wrote:

> I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root.
> I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions?
>
# ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Nov 22  2000 /dev/dsp

So you have to add the users who are allowed to play sound to the group
audio:

adduser <user> audio

Relogin as user, and check with 'groups' to which groups you belong.

Then it should be working.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan