Hi,
Yesterday I installed Debian Unstable (hoping to become a very happy
Debian user) by running the netinstaller and then selecting "desktop" in
tasksel.
I had the problem that sound and volume control weren't working.
When I wanted to play an audio file it was complaining taht it cannot
open /dev/dsp and the volume control applet complained that
/dev/sound/mixer does not exist. (/dev/mixer exists)
I now got everything working by changing the file permission of
/dev/dsp and /dev/mixer from crw-rw---- to crw-rw-rw- (both are owned by
root:audio) and make a symbolic link from /dev/sound/mixer to /dev/mixer
What I first tried is adding the audio group to my group but that didn't
work.
I have the feeling that what I did is not the official way to set things
up. For example in Fedora both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer have as
permission crw------- and are owned by root:root
Does anybody know how what's the official way to set it up?