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Re: Setting up sound



At 09:40 AM 4/12/02, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
Hello,

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:55:39PM +0700, banggae@fisika.ui.ac.id wrote:
> If your linux box is running kernel 2.4.X, well probably you don't need alsa
> driver.
> Just do:
>
> linux#modconf

Turns out the necessary modules are already loaded. Apparantly it is a
permission problem. The root user can play sound. Normal user is not
capable and is denied access to the sound device. I checked the
permissions on various sound devices and they are the same as those on a
machine where it does work!
Does anybody know why root can use sound and normal user not?

jeroen:/dev# ls -l dsp mixer dsp audio
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   4 Mar 14 22:51 audio
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14 22:51 dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14 22:51 dsp
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 Mar 14 22:51 mixer

Because the user is not a member of the group audio
 go into /etc/groups

after the last : in audio add your user name.
Log out and back in.


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