On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:21:58AM +0000, Joel Alexandre wrote: > hi, i've just installed my sound card(ac97) with kudzo. > as root there are no problems, but as a user i couldn't access /dev/dsp. so > i changed the permissions of /dev/dsp and now it works. The problem is > that the sound is too low and i can't use kmix to change the volume. i > just open it but it doesn't show anything. maybe it's some permission > problems, but i don't know what to change. As root kmix works perfectly. > could someone help. thanks If you want everybody to be able to use sound, /dev/dsp should look like crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 2003-01-20 05:51 /dev/dsp If you want just people you want to use sound to use sound, it should look more like this crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2003-01-20 05:51 /dev/dsp Then you go edit /etc/group and find the line starting with "audio" audio:x:29: Change it so it looks like this (replace baloo with your user name) audio:x:29:baloo If you have more than one person you want to have sound, make it look more like... audio:x:29:baloo,akela,mowgli,bagheera Note how the users are seperated by commas with no space. The new groups take effect for each user on the following login, so if you add yourself, log out and log back in. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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