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amca01

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Registered: 2008-12-28

Posts: 57

No sound as normal user

I've configured sound according to the instructions on the wiki; and I can play sounds as root with no troubles:

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

sounds just fine.  However, as a normal user, that command produces:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2202:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:590: audio open error: No such file or directory

I've added the user (me!) to the audio group, and checked /etc/group to make sure.  So I'm a bit stuck here - any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks,
-A.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: No sound as normal user

did you relogin?

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sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: No sound as normal user

Log out (from all tty) and log in again for the group changes.

Make sure that the

id

command lists the audio group.

Last edited by sisco311 (2008-12-28 15:07:17)

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amca01

Member

Registered: 2008-12-28

Posts: 57

Re: No sound as normal user

Yes, I've logged out and back in several times.  But here's the thing.  As root, "id amca" gives:

uid=1000(amca) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),92(audio)

but as me (amca), "id" gives

uid=1000(amca) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)

So I'm still a bit stuck.

-A.

amca01

Member

Registered: 2008-12-28

Posts: 57

Re: No sound as normal user

Sorry - fixed it!  I was doing all of this in an X terminal; after I restarted X it all works fine.

-A.

sisco311

Member

From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: No sound as normal user

Cool!

Please mark the thread solved.

Edit the original post and add [SOLVED] to the title.

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