well, my login is a member of the audio group. I can play mp3's, .wav files and I can get sound in games now. But I cannot play cds! Xmms reads the disk, lists the tracks and refuses to play them unless I am root. Abe >===== Original Message From Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >O yeah, your right I was trying to do that, (add users to audio group) >but Kuser I don't think can do it, it did not add them >when I told it to, so would you know the good old fashioned >commandline method for doing that? > >I could sure use knowing what to type in my VT >or konsole to do this. > >Thanx > > >On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote: >> >> Thats not the best solution. My 7.1 system came with an audio group - >> just add the users to that group and they should be able to have >> access. As an aside, where does kde keep its mime types - I am >> experimenting with esd and find that when the daemon is running kde >> sometimes locks up so I want to redirect the kde player (i.e., whatever >> it uses) >> >> BillK >> >> >> Vic wrote: >> > >> > At a root shell I type: >> > >> > chmod a+rw /dev/sndstat; chmod a+rw /dev/audio; chmod a+rw /dev/dsp >> > >> >> > >---------------------------------------- >Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Content-Description: >---------------------------------------- Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
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