[mythtv-users] Sound requires admin login

Bryan Halter bhalter at armyofpenguins.com
Fri Apr 8 13:22:43 UTC 2005



Marc Tousignant wrote:

>Adding your user to the audio group should solve this problem.
>
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>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brent McGuire
>Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:03 PM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Sound requires admin login
>
>I was having isues with sound not working correctly and in order to be 
>able to us sound, I have to run teh sound detection tool.  These 
>requires me to login as admin to testit.  Wel then it hit me that for 
>some reason my sound drivers have admin premissions only and is probably 
>the reason why sound wasnt working.  Anyone got any idea on why this is 
>doing this and how to fix it?
>
>Thanks,
>Brent
>
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Also make sure the audio group has default write permissions on your 
audio device, Gentoo (inexplicably) ships with -rw------- permissions on 
/dev/dsp

--Bryan
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