alsa help

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"Tom Masterson" <kd7cyu at yahoo.com> 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
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