Group membership, was Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nicolas Bertolissio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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-rw1 root audio

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-12 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 12:55:02 Mark Phillips wrote: > hello, Hi, > 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-rw1 root audio

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-12 Thread Nicolas Bertolissio
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 12:55:02 Mark Phillips wrote: > > hello, Hi > 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-rw1 root aud

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Mike
Mark Phillips wrote: > question 1: > does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to > when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method > to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and > zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or some

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hello, > > question 1: > does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to > when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method > to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:55:02AM -0600, Mark Phillips wrote: > > 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. you have to logout and relogin for group changes to take effect. -- Ethan Benson http:

Re: package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Rob VanFleet
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-rw1 root audio

package searching & soundcard issues

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Phillips
hello, question 1: does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to when the package is not currently installed? i remember seeing a method to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't see