Making sound work for users

Config · 07-08-2002, 10:16 AM

I just managed to make me system play mp3's - I know that I still have the permission problem - I just would like to know how I could do it.
One way would be giving everybody the right to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer but I sort of dislike this - I have added a group called audio and all users belong to this one, root as well. So is there another way instead using chmod 666?
Thanks

DavidPhillips · 07-08-2002, 01:17 PM

well if only audio group needs access then you could use 660

as long as the dev files are owned by the audio group

chown owner:group /dev/???
or chown :group /dev/???

chown :audio /dev/dsp
chmod 660 /dev/dsp