devices

[David Bruzos]

The best way to do it is to add your users to the correct system group that owns the devices.  I think that Debian has a 
group called "audio" and one called "video".  However, I don't use Debian so I am just speculating.  I use FC and this is 
not a problem for me, because the default user-configuration allows for audio access without beeing part of any group.  I 
like the "audio" group thing, it is cool and reasonable.

Anyway, it helps if you specify in your message what distro you are using.  Something like: I use Debian.


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:41:57AM -0800, jim grimsby wrote:
> Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work
> unless I am a logged in as root.  To correct this problem I gave the other
> group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this 
> Chgrp jim /dev/dsp 
> Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else.  
> Thanks.  
> 
> 
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