/dev/dsp Permission Denied

[Joel Goguen]

On Thu, 2005-16-06 at 20:04 +0200, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Thursday den 16. June 2005 15:14, Troy Davidson wrote:
> > If I log in as my user, who setup KUbuntu on my box, I have sound and
> > it works fine in all apps.
> >
> > But, I have users for my wife and son.  They log in and get a message
> > saying something like "can't use audio.  /dev/dsp (Permission
> > Denied)".  I look at /dev/dsp and it is RW for Root and Audio.
> >
> > So, I add them to the group Audio.  But, they still get the problem.
> > I read some posts on the web, but none specifically had this error.
> >
> > Should I just change the permisison to RW for everyone on /dev/dsp?  I
> > figured adding them to the group Audio would have done the trick.
> >
> > Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Have you tried adding the users to the audio group?
> 
> -- 
> Med venlig hilsen
> 
> Thomas Olsen
> 

The message you quoted said:
"So, I add them to the group Audio.  But, they still get the problem."


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Joel Goguen
ITS Student Consultant
Bachelor of Computer Science III
University of New Brunswick