Re: soundserver/ logout

From: Debian (zzzz_at_latenight.net)
Date: 07/19/03 

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 13:26:27 -0600

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:23:03 -0600, Andreas Janssen wrote:

> Hello
>
> Debian wrote:
>
>> Looking at the permissions on /dev/dsp the access permissions are set
>> to:user r-w=on e-s off
>> to group r-w=on e-s off
>> others off
>>
>> ownership is
>> root
>> audio
>
> That is the standard configuration. Sound is only accessible to root and
> members of the audio group.
>
>> I tried changeing the ownership to mark(my user) and no go I changed
>> it back and tried logging in as root and it said the same error message
>> except device not found instead of permission denied
>>
>> this stuff is all new to me and I've been reading everything i can.
>> thanks Mark
>
> Changing the ownership of /dev/dsp to your user account is not the
> recommended way (and maybe not sufficient). Try to restore the original
> ownership and permissions to root.audio and crw-rw----. Next, make sure
> your user is in the audio group. You can use kuser for this (don't
> forget to save the settings) or edit /etc/group manually. There you can
> find the following line:
> audio:x:29:
> Change it to:
> audio:x:29:mark
> After you added your user account to the audio group either with kuser
> or manually, log out and log in again. Sound should work from then on.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen
>
ok I've added mark to the users and restored the rest it seems to see the
changes the error message now reads (no such device)
 how can i check the drivers for the sound card

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