On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David E.Fox wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2001 17:06, you wrote:
> > At 09:41 AM 4/2/01 -0700, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
> > >The proper solution to this problem is to add your USERNAME to the AUDIO
> > >group. Don't change perms.
>
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned the permissions on the
> audio devices themselves. What, for instance, are the permissions
> on /dev/dsp? If it's set to (for example) -rw------ root audio then no
> wonder you can't use the device as a non-root user.
>
> You could circumvent the issue and just chmod 666 your audio
> device files (/dev/audio, /dev/sequencer, /dev/dsp etc.) if you don't
> expect someone telnetting in and sending stuff out your sound card in
> the middle of the night and waking you up :).
my machine is secure, so that isn't an issue.
> It probably is more sensible to add yourself to the audio group and make the
> sound device files owned by that group. But you said it didn't work for you.
> But, what were the permissions set to? If you didn't set them to 640 (i.e.,
> -rw-rw--' then you wouldn't have been able to access them even if you did
> change the group info.
bizarre. i didn't change anything and now it works :(
