Jeez, it really isn't a matter of life and death; this procedure works with the same KDE desktop running on Debian/GNu for over a year and a half.
There are many ways of doing what you want, and this way works as well as the other. JC On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:47 pm, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:18, Jonathon B. Craw wrote: > > Hey, you'll be able to install it blindfolded after a few times. It > > *really* does become easy. > > > > 1. Permissions on /dev/mix* /dev/dsp/*: give yourself read/write access > > I might do something like chmod a+rw /dev/mix* /dev/dsp* -- see chmod > > Umm, no... > > Also known as "NO! NO! NO!" > > Do NOT go mucking around with chmod'ing /dev entries! They are the way > they are for a reason. > > Instead, do an ls -l of the /dev entries that you need - in this case > you are looking at sound so you will likely see something like: > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/sound/dsp > > Notice the second pronouncable word - "audio". That is the group that > the device belongs to - everyone in that group has permission to use > that device. Add those users that you wish to have access to sound to > the audio group, with a command such as: > > # adduser <username> audio > > Note the pound sign - it needs to be issued from root or via an sudo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
