No sound unless root

Shafted · 04-15-2004, 05:08 PM

I've got an Audigy 2 soundcard and the emu10k driver is installed and working fine but only if I'm logged in as root. When I try and enable audio as a user it tell me I don't have permissions to /dev/mixer (i think). When I'm root the audio works fine, although I had to enable it at first, but I did the same as a user and it still won't work.

What can I do beside changing the permissions? Even if I do change the permission after a reboot they are changed back....

czarherr · 04-15-2004, 05:46 PM

put yourself into the sys group

geekzen · 04-15-2004, 06:32 PM

Nope. Audio. On debian at least.

geekzen · 04-15-2004, 06:33 PM

Are you using alsa or OSS... cause alsa you can define device permissions.

Shafted · 04-15-2004, 09:19 PM

I've used the 2.6.5 kernel image from apt. I'll assume that it defaults to OSS....

debnuxian · 04-15-2004, 09:28 PM

Do one of the following:

The wrong way:

As root:

chown user:group /dev/dsp
chown user:group /dev/mixer (if you have it)

chmod 700 /dev/dsp
chmod 700 /dev/mixer (if you have it)

The Debian way:

As root:

adduser username audio

geekzen · 04-15-2004, 10:11 PM

I dont know: I never use stock kernels. Audio is the way to go though.