Newbie-Help setiing up audio group.
 

Hi

I've started using Linux in the last several months and decided to give Slackware a try.

Getting installed went fine (and I did it using the current directory so I guesss I'm running Slackware 9.1.something but I'm having trouble setting up my user account as I want.

When I log into KDE I get permission denied for sound devices.

Other distros I've tried just had an audio group each user had to join that included the appropriote devices. So I tried setting one up in Slackware.

But it will not let me change the group ownership of dsp to audio. chown worked ok with /dev/audio but with dsp it tells me that audio is an invalid user.

I tried to set up a group called disks that would let my regular user account access my fat32 partitions under the same theory but I got the same kind of error trying to change the ownership for them.

And I noticed that dsp itself had its permission automatically set to 777 anyhow and its a link to dsp.0 wich had stricter permission. Audio did as well. So shouldn't they have jbeen wokring in theory anyhow?

Can anyone explain to me figure out how to acces audio and fat 32 partitions as a regular user?

Thanks

Try out as root ont he console alsaconf, that should fix your problem right there

Oh, duh okay got it.

Thanks