devices

[Farhan]

just as a side note. i do like debian better then fedora. except for one 
thing., the x config. thats a pain cause i don't want my monitor to turn in 
to a grill in front of me.... can someone yell at me and tell me how they 
got debian working with x?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: devices


> 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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