Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an error

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-10 Thread John Halton
On 9/10/06, Andrew Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio program as an

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
--- John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/10/06, Andrew Schulman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo),

No sound for non-root users

2006-09-09 Thread John Halton
The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an error

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Halton wrote: The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio

sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello all, Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user can play sounds/music? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = mailto:[EMAIL

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread mheyes
add :rbf, without the quotes Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/14/99 01:05:33 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: sound as non-root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Add users to the audio group in /etc/group Ok, thanks! Hmm.. What

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Gary Hennigan
Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sound works great on my potato system as root, but I have permission problems as a normal user. Is there a way I can make it so a normal user can play sounds/music? Yes, add them to the audio group. You can see what group a particular device is in by

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Ron Farrer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: add :rbf, without the quotes Ok, now I get a little futher: Can't open /dev/dsp! Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer = === = mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = = http://www.farrer.net =

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread mheyes
what are the permissions on /dev/dsp? Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/14/99 01:40:26 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound as non-root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: add :rbf, without

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Ron Farrer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: what are the permissions on /dev/dsp? $ l d* 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 22 12:02 dsp 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 19 Oct 22 12:02 dsp1 Any ideas? TIA, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread mheyes
/14/99 03:00:16 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound as non-root? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: what are the permissions on /dev/dsp? $ l d* 0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Oct 22 12:02 dsp 0

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Marshal Wong
You need to log out and log back in to make the group changes take affect. Just stating the semi-obvious. Marshal From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sound as non-root? Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:08:47 -0500 Hmm. If rbf is added to /dev/audio group, it looks like this should work

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread mheyes
Thanks. I wasn't sure how far out you had to go. Michael Heyes Marshal Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/14/99 03:40:32 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: sound as non-root? You need to log out and log back

Re: sound as non-root?

1999-12-14 Thread Ron Farrer
Marshal Wong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You need to log out and log back in to make the group changes take affect. Just stating the semi-obvious. Yep, logout.. Works great now. Thanks! Thanks again, Ron -- === = Ronald Burnett Farrer =