[svlug] device permissions

[M. Drew Streib]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:09:45PM -0700, Scott Thompson wrote:
> I have some time on my hands so I thought I would try and figure out why 
> sound doesn't work on my system.  I think everything is in place, but 
> when trying to play sound as a normal user (i.e. during KDE startup), I 
> get a permissions error on /dev/dsp.  What should the permissions be for 
> a device file so a regular use can use it?

I'm sort of surprised the distribution didn't do this, but I think 
generally some sort of sound group is created, given group ownership
of /dev/dsp, which is set to g+rwx. Users in this group should then
have access to the device.

You probably already have this set up somewhere, and just don't have
your current user in that sound group.

-drew

-- 
M. Drew Streib <dtype at dtype.org>
Independent Rambler, Software/Standards/Freedom/Law -- http://dtype.org/
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