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