device /dev/dsp can't be opened. (Permission denied)

[Mircea Hutanu]

well, as the message sais it's a problem of permisions
you need to chmod 666 /dev/dsp and chmod 666 /dev/mixer

On 7/22/05, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net> wrote:
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> I'm currently running my FC2 installation on a multi-boot pentium 3
> with 4 linux, caldera's "dr-dos v7" And an almost never used win98se.
> 
> I wanted to experiment with having a very generic user account run
> startx so that the default gui_settings didn't mess with my personal
> "~/.*" files. While an "su $SpecifiedUsrAccount" would allow me to use
> bash to access my personal settings with commands like "mozilla &"...
> 
> I use startx because I insist on being able to use "run level 3" access
> before I decide when or if to go to "run level 5" with kde...
> 
> What I've found is that if I want to listen to my CD's then I'd better
> run startx from my personal account or I'll get the /dev/dsp error
> message (see subject) and find audio output being redirected to /dev/nul
> <sigh>... So I used 'kdesu "konsole --ls"' to get a root permission
> terminal shell, and used mc to peek at, and change the file ownership
> from my personal user account to the generic one I wanted to use for a
> while.
> 
> Then I used logout to close down the xserver, and again ran startx.
> (didn't work...)... So I did a powerdown command, and rebooted to a
> clean "run level 3" environment. logged in as root, and again used
> mc to visually confirm that /dev/dsp's ownership had indeed been restored
> to my personal user account. and again chown it to the generic account I
> wanted to run the xserver from. then after logging out from root and
> back into the generic account I again ran startx...
> 
> Well for weeks the generic account stopped getting the error message,
> but still didn't get any sound output to my speakers.
> 
> Lately, I've again started to get the /dev/dsp error pop up message.
> 
> 
> What I'd like to know is how to specify to the "kernel and/or gui
> processes which user account or accounts should have the needed
> permissions to get a working sound server on startx.
> 
> clues welcome...
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Mircea Hutanu               
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