On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:55:02AM -0600, Mark Phillips wrote:
> question 2:
> on my debian installation, root seems to be the only user who can access
> the soundcard (with xmms, etc.).  if i'm not mistaken, the souncard is
> /dev/dsp. on my machine this is:
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jul  5  2000 /dev/dsp
> 
> i tried doing an `addgroup mark audio', but i still get `Permission
> denied' when i try `cat /dev/dsp'.  can anyone give me a hand?  thanks.

Have you logged out and logged back in after you added yourself to the
group?  Apologies if this is obvious to you, just thought I'd toss it
out.

-Rob

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