[vox-tech] why does HAL hate me

[Ken Bloom]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 08:18, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> I ran into this too recently.  Problem seems to be an issue of your
> user being a member of the right groups.  On my distro (Arch) once I
> added myself to the groups "optical" and "storage" and then
> (important!) either logged out 

logged out

> or rebooted (I can't remember which) 
> the problem went away.
>
> Depdending on what distro you're using, the group names may be
> different (e.g., I think Debian might have a group "hal" that you

haldeamon

> might need to add yourself to) but once you get yourself added to the
> right groups (and reboot!) the problem should go away.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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