Re: soundcard use as non-root

[Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz>]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 23:05, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:54, 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?
> 
> Add the users that are allowed to access the sound card to the 'audio'
> group. Edit /etc/groups and add the usernames comma seperated at the end
> of the line for audio

Or marginally easier. Type as root:

adduser <username> audio

[See man adduser. It's the fourth syntax: adduser [options] user group]

Regards,
Adam