/dev/mixer

[gbell72]

I've chmod 666 if that is the correct seting already and as for the c I have no
clue, possibly because /dev/mixer is part of the sys and not audio group.
Slackware is a bit different from what I'm used.  I'll try that app, thx

Gardner

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:52:10 -0400 (EDT)
> gbell72 <gbell72-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> uttered:
>
> > I'm presently working in windowmaker with no decent graphical mixer
> > program. I've attempted to use /dev/mixer but I continuously get a
> > permission denied, even after I have su - to root.  Root is a member
> > of the sys group is there a reason why root is being denied access to
> > this program?  When I do an ls -l  I get crw-rw----    1 root     sys
> >      14,   0 Jul 18  1994 /dev/mixer
> > Does anyone know how I can fix this?
>
> I get this:
>
> lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           11 Sep 26 10:45 /dev/mixer ->
>
> which look like even more restrictive perms (what the heck is the "c"?)
> and I'm able to use wmsmixer to control the sound. It's a pretty cool
> dockapp available from here:
>
> http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp/showcat.php3?type=Audio
>
> In the end you could just chmod and chgrp, if necessary, no?
>
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