Thus spake Ian D. Stewart last Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:52:05AM -0400: > On 2002.05.24 06:32 Christoph Schaefer wrote: > > Hi Glen, > > > > If adding yourself to the audio group doesn't solve the problem, try > > it the > > hard way: > > as root do chmod 777 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer > > According to the Sound HOWTO[1], the sound device files (/dev/audio, > /dev/dsp, /dev/mixer) should have permisions 0666[2].
While this certainly works, this also means giving all users access to the sound device, thus Debian policy (? - I think) was to restrict access of certain services to members of a particular group, like users who are members of the audio group are the only ones that can access the sound device. For security's sake... -- -->paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG KeyID 0xEADFF6F4 ___________________________________________________________________ "I think ideology sucks. This world would be a much better place if people had less ideology, and a lot more "I do this because it's FUN and because others might find it useful, not becaue I got religion."" --> Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
