just as a side note. i do like debian better then fedora. except for one thing., the x config. thats a pain cause i don't want my monitor to turn in to a grill in front of me.... can someone yell at me and tell me how they got debian working with x? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bruzos" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:48 PM Subject: Re: devices > The best way to do it is to add your users to the correct system group > that owns the devices. I think that Debian has a > group called "audio" and one called "video". However, I don't use Debian > so I am just speculating. I use FC and this is > not a problem for me, because the default user-configuration allows for > audio access without beeing part of any group. I > like the "audio" group thing, it is cool and reasonable. > > Anyway, it helps if you specify in your message what distro you are using. > Something like: I use Debian. > > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:41:57AM -0800, jim grimsby wrote: >> Hi, now that I am testing devices I find that a lot of them will not work >> unless I am a logged in as root. To correct this problem I gave the >> other >> group owner ship of the device that I wanted to use by doing this >> Chgrp jim /dev/dsp >> Is this the best way to handle this issue or should I do some thing else. >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
