[svlug] device permissions

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Thu Apr 17 21:26:30 PDT 2003


On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:09:45 -0700 
Scott Thompson <scott_thompson at earthlink.net> 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?

Add yourself to the audio group.

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