TeamSpeak with ET with a SB Live!

[Daniel Gilbert]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:10 -0400, Scott J. Henson wrote:
> Daniel Gilbert wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 04:46 -0500, Russ wrote:
> > 
> >>Ok, So I'm trying to get my sound to work in tc:e while running
> >>teamspeak, I'm following what I read and what people say to do in the
> >>forums, except when I try to do this.
> >>I have a sb live! card and sound works everywhere else.
> >>
> >>
> >>sudo echo "et.x86 0 0 direct">/proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
> >>bash: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss: Permission denied
> >>
> >>sudo echo "et.x86 0 0 disable">/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
> >>bash: /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss: Permission denied
> >>
> >>Any Idea as to what I can do about this, since it seems to be the key
> >>to getting this to work.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I have recently had this problem.
> > 
> > Im not sure why sudo doesnt work in this case, but if you echo these
> > commands (minus the sudo) from a root shell they work with no permission
> > errors.
> 
> This is because you run the command echo as root,but then the shell
> redirect is a function of the shell you are in, which at this time is
> running as you. So, you don't have permision to write to the file.
> 

Ahh.. Thanks, that makes a lot of sense!  Is there any command line
workaround for this?  I suppose it may be easiest to make a small script
to run with sudo when needed.