On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:55:58PM -0000, Hanno B?ttcher wrote: > Hi all! > > Sorry for asking again, I remember it was asked just a short time ago, but I > deleted the messages allready. > How can I configure access to the audio device for normal users (or e.g. one > explicit user)? I allready added the user to the group "audio" and checked > the permissions of /dev/audio but it doesn't work. I'm testing it with > mp3blaster and it allways says "Can not open Audio Device". If I try as root > it works, so the audio device itself is up.
Once I added the user to group audio, I had to reboot for the changes to take effect. There's probably some service you could restart to avoid this, but I don't know what it is. -- Jeremiah