On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > > > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > > > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like > > > workman without making it world writable and without having to do group > > > calisthenics. > > > > The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio > > group. > > You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem.
It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom.... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
