On 16-Nov-2001 Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running woody on a Dell Inspiron 8100 with kernel 2.4.14. The system uses a > Maestro3 sound chip. Compiling kernel 2.4.14, the Maestro3 driver shows up > marked as experimental under xconfig but it is grayed out and non-selectable. > So far as I could tell, it isn't dependent upon another option. Under > menuconfig, the Maestro3 doesn't show up at all. I manually edited .config > and enabled the Maestro3 driver. The kernel compiled fine, and I have sound > under X if I'm logged in as root. If I log in under my normal user account, > I have no sound. My first thought is a permissions issue, but I'm not sure > which files might cause this. Thanks in advance for any thoughts or > suggestions. >
add the user to the group 'audio'. The files in /dev are audio, dsp, and mixer. They should be 660 root:audio.
