Re: sound server message on startup

[Gee Law <gee@dizzyduck.uklinux.net>]

whoops -- didn't cc to group.

Joris,

the best thing would be to execute the following command as root:

addgroup jorishuizer audio

You need to log out and log back in again for it to take affect (or use 
newgrp).

On 2003.01.20 10:27 Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting an error on startup about a sound driver :
>
> ---------------------
> Sound server informational message:
>
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permissioned denied)
>
> The sound server will continue, using the null output
> device.
> ----------------------
>
> I read like this - it seems only the root and "users
> in the same group" (the second rw- entry right ?) can
> use it:
>
> -------------------------
> jorishuizer@debian:~$ ls -lh /dev/dsp
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14
> 2002 /dev/dsp
> -------------------------
>
> I don't exactly know what this /dev/dsp is - is it
> save to change the rights by using "chmod 644" ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joris
>
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