Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:46, Ralf Nolden wrote: > > You should add the user in question to the audio group. In Debian, the > > permissions and ownership of /dev nodes is VERY carefully thought out. > > e.g. want a user to be able to use the serial ports? Then add him to > > the dialout group. > > >

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-28 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 02:12, Mario J. Barchéin Molina wrote: > El Lunes, 27 de Enero de 2003 23:55, David Pye escribió: > > That's NOT the right way to fix it. > > > > You should add the user in question to the audio group. In Debian, > > the pe

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-28 Thread Ralf Nolden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Montag, 27. Januar 2003 23:55, David Pye wrote: > That's NOT the right way to fix it. > > You should add the user in question to the audio group. In Debian, the > permissions and ownership of /dev nodes is VERY carefully thought out. e.g. > want a

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread Michael Peddemors
It would be even better, if someone talked to the adduser package maintainer, and have adduser package installation ask if you want people to be added to the 'audio' group by default or something to that effect, but this is the wrong list for that discussion :) Otherwise, if using kde for adding

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread funky soul
hi Bob, On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:39:28 -0500 Bob Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My box can only play sound if root has logged in, otherwise "a device to > play sound cannot be found" is reported. > I can post details later after work but any preliminary ideas? do the users have read/write acc

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread Mario J. Barchéin Molina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Lunes, 27 de Enero de 2003 23:55, David Pye escribió: > That's NOT the right way to fix it. > > You should add the user in question to the audio group. In Debian, > the permissions and ownership of /dev nodes is VERY carefully thought > out. e.g. wa

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread David Pye
That's NOT the right way to fix it. You should add the user in question to the audio group. In Debian, the permissions and ownership of /dev nodes is VERY carefully thought out. e.g. want a user to be able to use the serial ports? Then add him to the dialout group. At least doing it this way

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:15:37PM -0700, Bob Tilley wrote: > > My box can only play sound if root has logged in, > otherwise "a device to play sound cannot be found" is > reported. Did you add your user account to the 'audio' group in '/etc/group'? -- Thomas E. Vaughan (303) 939-6386 Ball A

Re: Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread R Sean Eidemiller
My box can only play sound if root has logged in, otherwise "a device to play sound cannot be found" is reported. Make sure the file permissions for /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer are set to 666 (i.e. crw-rw-rw-) That's the first thing I would check. -Sean Eidemiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Only root can play sound

2003-01-27 Thread Bob Tilley
I'm not at my box and so must re-type the error message from memory. My box can only play sound if root has logged in, otherwise "a device to play sound cannot be found" is reported. I can post details later after work but any preliminary ideas? Bob