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billbar

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Registered: 2004-02-14

Posts: 100

[SOLVED]Sound on root but not user

Don't know how I messed this up, but audio only available on root.  Added audio group to user.
Can somebody tell me how to fix it?
Have made many installations successfully but blew it someplace.

Thanks for your help.
Bill

Last edited by billbar (2009-12-28 06:45:10)

xstaticxgpx

Member

Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 48

Re: [SOLVED]Sound on root but not user

Make sure your user is in the "audio" group...

gpasswd -a <user> audio

billbar

Member

Registered: 2004-02-14

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED]Sound on root but not user

I had already added 'audio' to the user group but it seemed it had no effect until I rebooted - maybe.
I also found that in my installation, following the wiki, that when alsamixer would not execute running as 'user'.
After booting into kde I found that kmixer was badly set. 

Thanks for the response.
Bill

tomd123

Developer

Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 565

Re: [SOLVED]Sound on root but not user

I had already added 'audio' to the user group but it seemed it had no effect until I rebooted - maybe.
I also found that in my installation, following the wiki, that when alsamixer would not execute running as 'user'.
After booting into kde I found that kmixer was badly set. 

Thanks for the response.
Bill

IMO, a logout/login was all that was probably required.