[Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis

[Carl Ebrey]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:01:29PM +0000, Sarah Swindell wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to linux (using mepis) and can't work out how to grant myself (as 
> user rather than root) access to the pci bus where my sound card and 
> internal modem reside. (I can't use the modem as root either, so might have 
> not set up Kppp properly)
> one of my mates has recommended typing chmod o +wr in the console, but I 
> guess the syntax was wrong because it just pointed me to the help menu.

Right, I might be wrong about this, but I hope I'm not! :)

For the sound card:

ls -l /dev/dsp will output something like...

lr-xr-x---    1 root     audio            9 2004-02-19 01:05 /dev/dsp

In order to allow your user access to that, you want to edit /etc/group (using
your favourite editor) and add your username to the audio group.  You'll want
to do the same thing for your modem, but I don't know off hand what device
file that'll be.  If it's an external modem, it'll be on one of the serial
ports, in which case it'll be /dev/ttyS<something>.  If it's an internal
modem, I have no idea at all!

However, I hope this gets you some way to getting your sound card working.  If
there are any glaring errors, I'm sure someone on here'll point them out :)

HTH,

Carl