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cb951303

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Registered: 2007-03-17

Posts: 92

[SOLVED]Root has sound whereas a normal user doesn't

The title says all.
I'm using KDE 4.2, when I startx in root, KDE's phonon recognizes my on board sound card and I get sound but when I startx with a normal user, phonon alerts me that sound backend doesn't work.

It looks like a permission problem but I couldn't find anything on forums and wiki

Thanks in advance

Last edited by cb951303 (2009-01-28 00:29:58)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: [SOLVED]Root has sound whereas a normal user doesn't

Have you added yourself to the audio group?

cb951303

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Registered: 2007-03-17

Posts: 92

Re: [SOLVED]Root has sound whereas a normal user doesn't

oops, that's it! thank you.

now that I found what these groups mean in wiki, I enabled some of them

disk
lp
wheel
uucp
log
games
video
audio
optical
floppy
storage
scanner
power
camera

The new problem is eventhough I enabled all of these, root can auto mount USB flash disks but the user can't...
any ideas?

thanks

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,231

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Re: [SOLVED]Root has sound whereas a normal user doesn't

Better to start a new thread for a new problem...

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