Allowing my user account to have sound? will drop pants for suggestions =D

[adamski]

i have configured sound for my root account (yay!) but now when i log into my user account and try to run aumix i get an error "no mixers found" msg or somehting along those lines....

i'm pretty sure it has to do with permissions, but i'm not exactly sure what files to change permissions on?

im using debian potato running gnome, and have installed alsa sound drivers for intel8x0 onboard sound *shudder* yes i cringe at having to say onboard *shudder* there i go again.... hehe =P

any suggestions are greatly appreciated =D

[bdl]

Please do NOT drop your pants.

Whew...ok now you usually have problems with user permissions on the following:

/dev/audio
/dev/dsp
/dev/mixer

...usually a chmod 666 will do it.

You might also consider creating a group 'sound' or something similar and change the devices over to that group, then add users you want to use it added to the group.

[adamski]

sweeeeeeet =D

i just did some chmods just then and worked a charm... and kinda had an idea it was them, but i thought i'd ask for help first....

i'll try doing the user groups now....

thanks a lot =D appreciated!

[adamski]

ok, i already had a group called audio,

which i added my user account to, but say i want to allow my user access to the cdrom, through the use of a group called 'cdplayer', how do i associate /dev/cdrom with the group 'cdplayer'?

[Ig0r]

chown root.cdplayer /dev/cdrom


I think you can get the general idea for other permissions from the above.