I did that as well as making every device read/write by the user (bad policy but...) and I still get a permission denied error from alsamixer and amixer. Of course they don't say what permission is denied on. Correction I just looked and alsamixer says "function snd_ctl_open failed on default. permission denied". It is debian. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nath" <nath.ml@xxxxxxx> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 14:11 Subject: Re: alsa help > "Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hi Folks > > > > > > > > I can get alsamixer and amixer to work if I am logged in as root but not as a > > user. I get a permission denied error on the default device. What do I need > > to set permissions on to solve this? I have looked at the man pages and they > > don't tell me. > > > you must have read and write access on the device (probably /dev/dsp) > for the user. > If your distro is a debian, add the user to the audio group by typing > the following command as root : > adduser your_user audio > After that logout and log in again as user before retrying the alsa > commands. > Hope this help, > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > -- > Nath > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list