Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 27 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > Do they work as root? Make sure you have the mixer device(s) in > > /dev. I don't have a Debian system handy with working sound, but my > > laptop (sans sound) has /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1. > > > > If they work as root then it's just a permission problem. > > > > May be a long shot but it's worth a look. > > It wasn't a long shot at all. That worked! > > I had no idea that there was a separate mixer device. chmod 666 > /dev/mixer fixed the problem. > > Many thanks. > > Too bad the apps didn't complain about a permissions problem...
I'm glad that worked. The Debian Way (TM) to do this, by the way, is to: chmod 660 /dev/mixer* chown root.audio /dev/mixer* and then add the users that you want to allow access to the audio group. A lot of the things devices in /dev work this way. Gary
