[Ilugc] Installing Sound Card
- From: akumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kumar Appaiah)
- Date: Mon Jul 24 18:40:56 2006
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 04:49:15PM +0530, Senthil Kumaran S wrote:
Also if he is able to play the audio file as root and not in the case
of the user he has created after installation, then it is related to
permissions to the /dev/dsp. I was stuck with this problem quite a
number of times in Debian.
The simple thing which I could do for the above is
$ su chmod 777 /dev/dsp
The right (tm) way of doing this is, either run "adduser <user> audio"
to add him to the audio group, or edit /etc/group and add <user> to
the entry corresponding to audio. It's much more elegant, and the
right way to handle other groups like "video", "dip", "dialout" etc.
Kumar
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