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Proinsias

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From: Glasgow

Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 121

[SOLVED] Sound in Arch Chroot

I have an Alpine Linux host, laptop, with Arch Linux installed in a chroot, using arch-chroot to enter the
chroot.

Audio is working within the chroot, with alsa on both host and chroot, but not when running as a non-root user.

I have added the user to the audio group, no change.

aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

I am using:

runuser -l username -c /bin/bash

To get a user shell.

I can run graphical applications from the non-root user shell, but no sound.

Any suggestions for gettting audio for a non-root user from within the chroot would be welcome.

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*update*

Not a real solution but I have been working with a Void glibc chroot at the same time, with the same issue. The manual for su pointed to setpriv, if PAM is not required at all. This works for audio and X:

setpriv --ruid user alpay -L

I can play some games with audio and sound but not got a browser going yet. Removing PAM from Arch doesn't look like a good idea....will keep tinkering.

Last edited by Proinsias (2018-09-29 01:36:47)