Re: [Alsa-xmms-user] Permission problem

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Reg <address@hidden> writes:

> As any other user I get:
> "error opening alsa device:  Permission denied"
>
> I've added my user to the audio group and added world readable/writable
> to the /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* and /dev/midi* devices.  No change.

Those correspond to OSS (or ALSA's OSS emulation), which alsa-xmms
doesn't use.  Check the options for snd in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9;
my system, which allows group audio (29) to access the devices (in
/dev/snd) has

options snd major=116 cards_limit=4 device_mode=0660 device_gid=29 device_uid=0

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