/dev/dsp Permission Denied

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:16:24PM -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> 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."
> 

It should be "audio" not "Audio".