Gary Hennigan wrote: > Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > > Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in > > > /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my > > > laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1. > > > > > > If they work as root then it's just a permission problem. > > > > > > May be a long shot but it's worth a look. > > > > It wasn't a long shot at all. That worked! > > > > I had no idea that there was a separate mixer device. chmod 666 > > /dev/mixer fixed the problem. > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Too bad the apps didn't complain about a permissions problem... > > I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is > to: > > chmod 660 /dev/mixer* > chown root.audio /dev/mixer* > > and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio > group. A lot of the things devices in /dev work this way. > > Gary > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Yeah thats a much better way. i am always chmodin 666 stuff to see if they work and then i cantremeber what the proper mods should be. Thank you for that knowledge so now i can fix my machine up proper :) -Jon
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